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by Murray Robertson

TWO life-saving organisations are to receive a huge funding injection through the generority of a Waerenga a Hika farmer who died earlier this year.

The Brown Road property of the farmer, which has a rateable value of $1.67 million, has gone on the market and proceeds from the sale will be donated to the Starship Foundation and Eastland Helicopter Rescue Trust.

In addition, Ray White Gisborne, the real estate agency marketing this property, is donating the company

share of the sale commission to Ronald McDonald House Charities New Zealand.

The property comprises 21 hectares of valuable land, a two-bedroom home and other infrastructure. It is used for summertime cropping and grazing.

Ray White Gisborne co-director and rural specialist Alan Thorpe said he and fellow listing agent Matt Martin “felt honoured” to have been approached by the trustees of the estate to market the property.

“The trustees have requested the late owner’s name and any further

details remain confidential at this stage,” Mr Thorpe said.

“Our company feels privileged to be part of this fantastic gesture — to provide our sales skills and give back to some community charities that provide such important services to people in their time of need.”

“The benefactor stated in his will that he wanted the property sold and divided up in this way, which is obviously an amazing gift.”

Eastland Helicopter Rescue Trust chairman Patrick Willock said he was “speechless” when first told of the

arrangement.“We were just blown away by the

generosity being shown.“This is the sort of thing you hear

about happening in the major centres but not so much in Gisborne.”

Mr Willock said he understood one of the late property owner’s requirements was that the proceeds from the farm sale benefit the Gisborne community.

The chopper service continues to provide a vital rescue and patient transfer service for the region.

BEQUEATHED TO CHARITIES: A Waerenga a Hika farmer, who passed away earlier this year, bequeathed the proceeds of the sale of his property (pictured) to the Starship Foundation and the Eastland Helicopter Rescue Trust. The property, with a rateable value of $1.67 million, is to be auctioned on July 9. Picture supplied

Hika farm sale proceeds to go to charity

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MORE than 700 birds winged their way to Ilminster Intermediate School over the weekend to show off their feathers at the 2021 Poverty Bay Bird Show.

Poverty Bay Bird Club secretary and show manager Terry Nickerson said a steady stream of people checked out the feathered friends.

“We were rapt with the weekend and all the birds that were on display.”

Most birds were from the North Island, with a few from the mainland.

The annual show did not happen last year because of Covid-19 so this was a good chance for everyone to reconnect, Mr Nickerson said.

“I’m over the moon with how the weekend went and I cannot thank the school enough for what they do to help.”

Bird lovers flock to Ilminster for a cheep tweet

BEST IN SHOW: David Ingoe has a history of success at the annual Poverty Bay Bird show and added to that with his grey-green winning best champion budgerigar and best budgerigar in show among several other titles.

BIRD’S THE WORD: Riley Hewitt was captivated by the sights and sounds of the Poverty Bay Bird Show, much to the delight of mother Dale Coppin. A steady stream of visitors enjoyed checking out the 700 birds that filled the Ilminster Intermediate venue. Pictures by Rebecca Grunwell

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DESPITE having picked up the guitar only relatively recently, Teifi Clarke (pictured) took the War Memorial Theatre stage with confidence to perform her own song before a crowd of 300 at the Smokefree Rockquest heats on Friday.

Wearing her mum’s Prince T-Shirt, the Gisborne Girls’ High School student won the event’s solo/duo section while another Year 9 student, Ella Harris, was second.

Teifi and Ella can now each enter a video submission which will be judged alongside other submissions from around the country and from which the top 30 will be announced.

First place in the regional Smokefree Tangata Beats Award went to Gisborne Boys’ High School act T.M.B. and

second went to Nga Rau Mahara of Gisborne Girls’ High.

The top 12 bands to play off at the East Coast regional final on Friday, July 2, at Lawson Field Theatre are —■ Up the Volume, Tolaga Bay Area School■ T.M.B, Gisborne Boys’ High■ Nga Rau Mahara, Gisborne Girls’ High■ 2K Rhythm, TBAS■ Lei Lows, GGHS■ The Tradies, GGHS■ The Rabbits, Lytton High/GBHS■ The Demonic Parasites, Ilminster■ Into Oblivion, GGHS■ Shaggy Hates Figs, GGHS■ Sixth Sense, GGHS■ Fyra, GGHS

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LOOKING AHEAD

THE GUIDE THURSDAYTOMORROW

FOCUS ON THE LAND

• Prices and comment from today’s cattle

fair at the Matawhero saleyards where

500-plus head were presented for sale.

• Fieldays starts tomorrow at Mystery

Creek and the ‘foodies’ will love what’s

going to be on offer in The Pantry this

year.

• The AgriHQ report for the week beginning

June 14.

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by Alice Angeloni

A CRIME prevention trust in Gisborne aims to double its vision over the next decade through more security cameras across the region.

The volunteer-run Gisborne Crime Prevention Camera Trust wants to increase the number of cameras from 28 to 58 over the next 10 years, with

plans to instal cameras in East Coast townships next year.

The trust’s logistics coordinator, Ken Huberts, said each township could potentially have one or two security cameras to cover the police’s “areas of interest”.

The cameras would need to be backed by the community, and have a reasonable funding stream, he said.

“The (police’s) wishlist is not insignificant but our job is to prioritise and work within our budget to cover those key areas,” Mr Huberts said.

The trust’s cameras operate from Gisborne Police station, and

volunteers play a preventative role by watching for action on Friday and Saturday nights.

“Their role is to be proactive, to look for things before they happen,” Mr Huberts said.

Police also have access to the footage and regularly use it to aid investigations or as evidence in prosecutions.

The cameras record 24/7 and the footage is stored for 30 days.

At Long Term Plan hearings last month, the trust showed footage captured on its network of firearms violations, vandalism, breaches of the liquor ban and illegal entry.

Presenting to councillors on May 13, Tairawhiti Area Commander Inspector Sam Aberahama said he believed the cameras had contributed to making Gisborne a safer place.

“Several years ago we had some real issues going on in our CBD, so much that I actually presented to the council about what was going on around the violence and the crime.

“The cameras have been a really big part of the evolution in taking us forward.”

They had gone from an environment of “wait until they break the window” to eyes on suspicious behaviour and

catching it before it progressed,” he said.

“That breach of liquor ban ends up being an assault, ends up being a burglary, ends up being a whole lot of stuff … I think we’ve come a long way. I truly believe we walk the streets at night and have meals and watch movies, and I hope we feel a whole lot safer in our community and I’m sure we do

than in the past.”He spoke of one image that

helped police locate imitation firearms, methamphetamine glass pipes, scales and butcher knives in a vehicle.

“Goodness knows what was . . . about to happen either in the CBD or in someone’s home, but we had some eyes on it and dealt with that.”

The trust last month asked

Gisborne District Council to increase its funding from $32,000 to $45,000 to cover rising operational costs.

Councillors agreed to up their camera contribution.

According to its submission, a camera costs about $5000 and has an expected life of five years.

A written submission from the trust said it would need $84,000 from the council in 2031.

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VISION

POLICE are continuing investigations into a series of firearms incidents in Wairoa after more drive-by shootings.

Detective Senior Sergeant Kevin Ford told The Wairoa Star police received reports at about 1.20am on Thursday that a property on Kopu Road had been shot at.

The shots were said to have come from a vehicle that drove off afterwards.

Another firearms incident occurred on Friday at 11pm in the Rata Place area.

Those incidents followed an incident on June 4 in McLean Street, Wairoa, from which a person with a gunshot wound was taken to Gisborne Hospital.

A loaded firearm was also located by police last week.

Det Sr Sgt Kevin Ford told The Star there had been an increase in gang tensions.

“This is a concerning event and officers are determined to locate those responsible.

“A scene examination has taken place and Wairoa CIB is investigating, supported by investigators from Gisborne and Hawke’s Bay.

“What is of particular concern is that on all of these occasions there were women and children inside . . . we have spoken to a number of gang leaders to get a de-escalation in tensions and make it clear that this retaliatory behaviour is unacceptable, especially when innocent lives are at risk.

“Police intend to continue this dialogue with gangs, as well as with community partnerships and whanau.

“This is important and part of a long-term effort to change this behaviour and casual attitude towards firearms, with greater community engagement driving the messaging around gang culture in Wairoa . . . community groups and whanau are making it clear that this is important for the health of the community as a whole.”

Wairoa Mayor Craig Little said “there should be zero tolerance for people carrying on like this”.

“These people have no regard for anyone’s life or safety and they appear to be shooting very randomly. It is so concerning and distressing for anyone living within earshot of these incidents.

“I have spoken to people who have heard these shots at night. They should not have to

live in fear of their lives.“Any shot alarms people these days and it is

scary. Most people are very safety conscious when using firearms but these guys have no regard for safety or for anybody.

“To anyone who has any information, you are not doing yourself or the people of the community any favours by not speaking to police. These people need to be arrested and dealt with.”

Police want anyone who might have information about these incidents to get in contact. Information can be provided by calling 105, quoting event number 210610/2952.

Information can also be provided anonymously via Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

WAIROA SHOOTINGS:

Starship Foundation chief executive Aisha Daji Punga said they were “incredibly humbled to hear of this most generous bequest”.

“In my time with the foundation I have personally seen the power of the generosity of such gifts.

“This incredible legacy will go a long way to help Starship — our national children’s hospital — continue delivering

world-class care and treatment to bring better health and brighter futures to the children of Gisborne, the Tairawhiti region and of New Zealand.

“We are extremely grateful for this wonderful gift.”

Many Gisborne families have children treated and cared for at Starship children’s hospital every year.

The auction for the property will be held on Friday, July 9, at Waikanae Surf Life Saving Club.

‘Incredible legacy’ will go a long way to helping StarshipFROM PAGE 1

UP FOR AUCTION: The property at 94 Brown Road to go under the hammer, with proceeds to go to three charity organisations, includes this house. Picture supplied

CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Footage captured on Gisborne Crime Prevention Trust cameras includes liquor breaches (above), a car crash (below left) and vandalism (below right).

Crime prevention trust keen to up its security camera coverage

Retaliatory behaviour putting community at risk

The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, June 15, 2021 NEWS 3

CAR JAM: Countdown’s new Gisborne store opened last week but parking is still hard to find. However, a spokesperson for the supermarket said it hoped to start work on the next stage of the development soon.“We’re working with the Gisborne District Council on plans for the next stage of our project which will include the demolition of the old store and reopening of the full carpark. We’re hoping that this will be approved in the next couple of weeks and we’ll kick off the next stage then.” Customers have also been reminded of the new traffic flow layout. “There are two entry/exit points from Carnarvon Street, another entry point from Childers Road and another exit point from Eden Lane.” Picture by Liam Clayton

by Andrew Ashton

MORE than 1000 offenders and ex-prisoners have been given a second chance through a driving programme here but new funding is needed if it is to continue.

The New Zealand Howard League for Penal Reform driving programme was launched here three years ago after the pilot programmes were set up nationwide at 17 locations through $7.5 million of funding from the Provincial Growth Fund.

NZ Howard League for Penal Reform operations manager Jenny Michie says the programme is excellent value for money and costs about the same as keeping one person in prison for a year.

“We only have to keep one person out of jail for a year and the Crown has its money back.”

The programme can cost up to $120,000 over a year and covers the costs of getting the correct ID needed for a licence, practice with a qualified driving

instructor, paying for the driving tests and providing a car in which to sit the practical tests.

Nationally, 10,000 people had passed tests, with more than 1000 of those in Tairawhiti.

“We’re really the only organisation that works almost exclusively with the Department of Corrections. Our programme is face-to-face and it works.

“We are funded to help anyone who has been in trouble with the justice system, either in the present or in the past. We take beneficiaries and turn them into taxpayers.”

Participants are mostly referred from external agencies and those within the Ministry of Justice.

The programme’s Tairawhiti-based driving instructor, Lu Maultsaid, said the course had a 90 percent pass rate.

“They can’t believe how easy it is,” she said.

“A huge benefit is it removes that weight from their shoulders and when

they come out with a pass, they are hungry to get more. They don’t just stop at learners or restricted, they go on to get their forklift, class 3 and 4.

“The ultimate is to break that cycle (of offending) and get them into employment.”

Funding for the programme ends on December 31.

Gisborne lawyer Nicola Wright said the programme had huge benefits.

“It’s a real opportunity to break the offending cycle in a positive, practical way. They can take their kids to sport, take them on holiday, help make their community appointments and support their whanau.”

BREAKING

THE CYCLE

MILESTONE: Organisers and participants of the Howard League for Penal Reform Driving Programme came together in Gisborne yesterday to mark the programme’s third anniversary. From left are Liz Street (Howard League) Adam Maseman (graduate) Jenny Michie (Howard League), Theo Akroyd (Department of Corrections) Tim Carr (graduate) Tony Maultsaid (Police), Lu Maultsaid (instructor) and Joanne Miller (Corrections). Picture by Liam Clayton

Hundreds in Tairawhiti reaping benefits of Howard League driving programme

‘ We only have to keep one person out of jail for a year and the Crown has its money back ’ — NZ Howard

League for Penal Reform operations

manager Jenny Michie

by Sophie Rishworth

DRIVERS in Tairawhiti have the third-longest wait in the country to sit practical tests to get their restricted or full driver’s licence.

They face an average 84-day wait to sit the test for a full licence, and a 97-day wait for the restricted driver’s licence test.

The wait has more than doubled from five weeks in March, to now more than 12 weeks.

An 18-year-old Gisborne woman had to wait just over a year to get her restricted licence after failing the practical test three times.

“I would recommend going down to Napier and doing it. It would be quicker,” she said.

“My first fail I brought my dad with me and he talked in the back seat of the car, and I got an automatic fail.”

She then had to wait three months to sit the test again.

The next time she failed on her parallel parking.

Then it was another two month wait for another test.

She failed a third time and eventually got it on her fourth go — just over a year later.

“Once you get it it’s great, I now have my independence.”

Morrinsville and Gore are the only other areas in New Zealand where the waiting time is worse.

Driving Change Network Coordinator Wendy Robertson said the latest figures showed the nationwide average wait times were around 50 days.

The Driving Change Network is a diverse group of more than 200 stakeholders working in driver education, training and licensing.

The group was told by Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency that their goal was to have services back to “pre-Covid levels” as soon as possible. But Ms Robertson says testing services were under strain long before the 2020 lockdown.

“Pre-lockdown, people throughout New Zealand were still waiting between four and eight weeks to secure a driving test slot, which is far too long.”

Ms Robertson says there were several factors contributing to the increase in

wait times, including the 2020 lockdown which saw tests cancelled, delayed, and the emergence of cautious booking practices such as not allowing language interpreters or support people.

“However, the main issue is the government’s user-pays system, which doesn’t have the capability to match demand for testing services.

“The government needs to move towards a centrally funded model where driver education, training and licensing is equitable and accessible to everyone in the community who wants to learn to drive.

“We need more driving testers available at each site, and an increase in testing hours. We also need more focus on driver education and training so learner drivers are better prepared for their practical test.

Ms Robertson said some areas of the country saw their calendar booked out as soon as new test booking time slots opened.

“These wait times create a huge amount of anxiety for people,” she said.

“They know if they fail their test it could take months to re-sit it, and these test failures create additional demand on a system which is already overburdened.”

Wait times for tests drag out months for frustrated drivers

THE Tolaga Bay First Responders and a crew from the Trust Tairawhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter worked together on Saturday to help a man who needed medical assistance at Cook’s Cove at Tolaga Bay.

“When our team arrived they worked with the local FENZ volunteers to stabilise the 65-year-old,” a chopper spokeswoman said.

“He was flown from the cove to the Gisborne Hospital emergency department for further treatment.

“ We thank the Tolaga Bay volunteers for their help.”

The man was treated in the hospital’s ED and then sent home.

Rescue chopper flies man to hospital from Cook’s Cove

CORRECTION

AN article in yesterday’s Business Quarterly titled “Virtual fence, precision farming”, stated that JMI Equity was an investor. It should have said JMI Services.

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FAMILY NOTICES

In Memoriam

The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, June 15, 20214 NEWS

by Sophie Rishworth

ROGER Faber is still waiting for the green light 18 months after the diagnosis he had stage three bowel cancer.

June is bowel cancer awareness month with the 2021 campaign called ‘Move Your Butt’.

Roger has been very open about his bowel cancer. He’s happy to speak about it to anyone because if it is caught early, it is treatable and beatable.

This month he was a guest speaker at the U3A monthly meeting. So far, Roger has had seven people tell him they got checked because of what he said, and were found to have bowel cancer as well.

It’s not just a male thing either, although it is more common in males.

For Roger, the first sign was blood on the toilet paper.

Concerned, he made an appointment with the doctor who did some tests.

“Don’t be too proud to go to the doctor and talk about these symptoms,” he encouraged the crowd.

“Those tests came back clear, and the doctor said it must be bleeding from haemorrhoids. So, I took some pills and got on with life.”

But there was still occasional blood.“A few years later and things got worse.“They did the same tests, told me

the same thing, but recommended a colonoscopy.”

Within two weeks he had had one and when he woke up from that procedure in January last year Roger was told he had bowel cancer, and that he’d had it for seven to 10 years.

The oncologist told Roger, “it’s lucky you’re fit”.

Being super-fit, a non-smoker who had a healthy diet, he’d done everything right. Other than the blood spots, Roger never had other common symptoms like a change in bowel habits, pain or a lump in the abdomen, tiredness, weight loss or anaemia.

Roger had surgery, which removed 30cm of bowel and left him with a stoma and a bag.

He went through chemotherapy over lockdown last year.

The close shave with death has made Roger and his partner reassess their life.

He sold his carpet business — which he co-owned for 25 years but had worked at for 43 years. Now he and partner Penny Pardoe want to spend long holidays up North on the boat, fishing.

“We can enjoy our life together.”

Bowel cancer is more common in men, especially those over the age of 60, but still 12 percent of New Zealanders diagnosed every year are aged 50-to-59.

‘Treatable and beatable’

GREEN Party MP for Ikaroa-Rawhiti Dr Elizabeth Kerekere has received her Covid-19 vaccination and unhesitantly recommends others do likewise.

“This vaccine is safe,” said the Green Party’s health spokeswoman.

“It will save lives. I urge every whanau to get it as soon as it becomes available to them to protect our whakapapa.

“Our strength against Covid-19 and any mutations relies heavily on quick and timely community vaccination.

“Together we can tackle it.”Dr Kerekere said she was humbled to

get her first vaccination.“I am one of many Maori with

underlying health conditions.“And because I have low immunity, my

GP has advised the vaccine will likely make me feel a bit sick for a day or two, but then I am protected against a deadly, harmful virus that has ravaged communities around the world.

“I’d like to acknowledge how fortunate I am to receive my vaccination alongside Te Atiawa iwi and Kaumatua.”

MP practises what she preaches

CATCH IT EARLY: Roger Faber had bowel cancer for around seven to 10 years. He first noticed blood in his poo but initial tests at his doctor did not show anything up. It was only when Roger had a colonoscopy they told him he had stage three bowel cancer, and had had it for almost a decade. Rogers encourages anyone with symptoms to make an appointment with their doctor. It is a cancer that is beatable and treatable if caught early. Picture by Rebecca Grunwell

STRIKE ACTION: Gisborne Hospital nurses take their case to the public for higher pay during their eight hour strike last week. New Zealand Nurses Organisation lead advocate David Wait said public hospital nurses around the country were “resolute”and could not rule out further strike action. “It’s heart-breaking that nurses and other health workers feel so undervalued that they would choose industrial action. “Nobody wants this and the best way for future strikes to be avoided would be through a fair and decent offer.” The nurses, nurse practitioners and healthcare assistants are pictured outside Gisborne Hospital. Picture by Rebecca Grunwell

JUNE is Bowel Cancer Awareness Month — and it’s also our annual Move your Butt fundraiser.

This campaign encourages all New Zealanders to get off their butts and challenge themselves to move more.

Bowel Cancer New Zealand general manager, Rebekah Heal, says, “every day, on average, eight Kiwis will be diagnosed with bowel cancer, and three people will die from it.

“By joining us, you’ll be raising vital funds to help fund patient support services such as counselling, which is needed now more than ever.”

The campaign runs until June 30 and Bowel Cancer New Zealand asks all Kiwis — young or old, fit or unfit — to Move their Butts more during June.

The challenge does not need to be extreme, like running a marathon; it simply means challenging yourself to exercise more than you usually do.

“This June, we’re aiming to get everyone off the couch and moving more — even if it’s just a 10-minute walk a day,” said Ms Heal.

“Not only are they helping themselves prevent bowel cancer — but by getting their friends and whanau to sponsor them, they’ll be raising valuable funds to help us continue to support the 3000 Kiwis diagnosed each year with bowel cancer.”

Move your Butt month is supported by a range of ambassadors, including TVNZ Breakfast presenter Jenny-May Clarkson whose brother died from bowel cancer at the age of 54.

“If you know something isn’t right, and you’re

scared of getting checked, think about those who love you — think about your kids and your partner and the love they have for you,” she said.

“Bowel cancer has a ripple effect on everyone close to you. So, if you have any symptoms, get them checked early — for their sake.”

In memory of her late brother, Jenny-May will do 54 ‘wall balls’ a day this June — a strenuous exercise that she says will be “tough, but manageable” during her busy schedule.

“Sometimes pushing yourself to move isn’t all that comfortable, but neither is bowel cancer. We’re all going through tough times right now, but those with cancer are doing it tougher.

“Many people are doing chemo on their own right now because of lockdowns, and they can’t be with family to help spread that load.

“Doing the Move your Butt challenge is just one thing we can all do to raise awareness of bowel cancer — and to acknowledge that it is hard for patients and their families, especially in a Covid environment,” she says.

“Together, let’s get moving to beat the devastating impact of bowel cancer.”

Sign up at moveyourbutt.org.nz Bowel Cancer New Zealand receives no

government funding, and all funds raised will support patients living with bowel cancer.

The organisation encourages open discussion about bowel cancer with medical professionals and avoiding “sitting on your symptoms”.

Symptoms include: •Bleedingfromthebottomorseeingbloodin

the toilet after a bowel motion; •Changeofbowelmotionsoverseveralweeks

without returning to normal;

•Persistentorperiodicseverepainintheabdomen;

•Alumpormassintheabdomen;•Tirednessandlossofweightfornoparticular

reason; •Anaemia.Those who have a family history of bowel

cancer or want to do regular checks, can talk totheirGPorbuyacommerciallyavailablebowel screening kit from the Bowel Cancer New Zealand website. However, if you have symptoms, seeyourGPimmediately.

More information on bowel cancer and Bowel Cancer NZ can be found at http://www.bowelcancernz.org.nz

Don’t sit on your symptoms

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by Julia Gabel and Michael Neilson, NZ Herald

WELLINGTON — An official apology for dawn raids that racially targeted Pasifika families and have been described as “state-sanctioned terrorism” is being welcomed by those impacted as a “very small start to the healing process”.

But advocates say to be truly meaningful the apology needs to be accompanied by a strong education campaign, compensation and pathway to residency for current overstayers.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern stood alongside Minister for Pacific Peoples Aupito William Sio yesterday as they announced the Government would officially apologise for the immigration raids of the mid-1970s that disproportionately targeted people of Pasifika heritage, suspected of overstaying their visas.

A study a decade later showed Polynesians had made up only a third of overstayers but more than 80 percent of all prosecutions for overstaying.

The announcement follows years of campaigns calling for such an apology, led by the Polynesian Panthers, which intensified this year on their 50th anniversary, and a petition delivered to Parliament.

Polynesian Panthers foundation member and University of Auckland Associate Professor of Pacific Studies Dr Melani Anae said the apology would go some way to start the healing process, but more needs to be done for the healing to truly begin.

“It is a very small start to the healing process that needs to happen in New Zealand in terms of its race relations with Pacific people and communities.

“I am applauding the Government for this announcement but I wait with bated breath for the detail that is to accompany the apology as it unfolds.”

She wanted changes to the education system, including making the study

of Pacific history and Pacific studies compulsory in the New Zealand history curriculum.

“It would give the students in our schools an understanding of their world beyond New Zealand and other places in the Pacific, and understanding race relations, and looking at the dawn raids as a dark side of history where there was state-sanctioned terrorism in your face in the 1970s and a call for that never to happen again.

“Those horrific stories are still causing intergenerational trauma and harm. This apology will go some way to start the healing but there needs to be practical measures that accompany that apology for the healing to truly begin.”

Will ‘Ilolahia, original chairman of the Polynesian Panthers, has been calling for compensation and pathway to residency for current overstayers to accompany the apology — a position backed by Auckland Council Manukau Ward Councillor Efeso Collins.

Ardern says the Government has agreed to make an official apology for the dawn raids targeting Pasifika people in the 1970s.

The Green Party is also calling for a broad amnesty programme for people who overstay and real pathways to residency.

Ardern said the apology — to be delivered in an official ceremony at Auckland’s Town Hall on June 26 — would be in line with past government apologies, such as to Samoa for New Zealand’s administration in its earlier years, and New Zealand’s Chinese community “for the discrimination suffered by those subjected to the poll tax and other practices”.

However, this apology would not look into any amnesty or compensation issues, she said.

Immigration issues would be looked at as part of a wider review process.

“Communities at the time felt targeted and terrorised and there is clear evidence the raids were discriminatory and have had a lasting

negative impact,” she said.“An apology can never reverse what

happened or undo the damage caused, but we can acknowledge it and we can seek to right a wrong.”

Sio said on the issue of amnesty and compensation he had a “personal view that I won’t be sharing today”.

Sio, who was born in Samoa and moved to Auckland with his family as a child, said he didn’t think there was any Pacific family in Aotearoa that would not have been affected in some way by the dawn raids, including his own.

“My own story, we were dawn raided,” said Sio, visibly emotional as he spoke, voice cracking at times and needing to wipe his eyes occasionally with a handkerchief.

“In the early hours of the morning, etched into my memory is my father being helpless.

“We had bought the home two years prior, to have someone knocking on the door in the early hours, flashlight in your face, disrespecting the owner of the home, with an Alsatian dog frothing at the mouth wanting to come in without any respect for the people living in there.

“It is quite traumatising. I asked my family on Sunday about it, my sister said she never wants to think about it.

“That is just my family, those stories are replicated across Pacific communities.”

Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon said the apology should have come earlier.

The dawn raids had unfairly targeted Polynesian people despite there being more European overstayers at the time.

Anyone with “dark skin” had been affected by the government-sanctioned events.

“So they carried this trauma for a long time, intergenerational, and it has affected their communities, at a time when the Government turned a blind eye, during the economic boom of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, and didn’t do anything about it,” Foon said.

“Congratulations to the Polynesian Panthers, the Polynesian people for facilitating this negotiation. It really is the proper thing to do. It works in with the Human Rights and the Bill of Rights in terms of acknowledging the trauma of the past from the Crown.”

Apology ‘very small start to the healing’

DEEP WOUNDS: The Polynesian Panthers, including Melani Anae (front left), played a prominent part in campaigning against the raids. Picture supplied

•TheDawnRaidsbeganin1974when the then-Labour government, faced with an economic downturn, clamped down on people overstaying their working visas. Samoans and Tongans — who had been welcomed into New Zealand with open arms in the 1950s and ‘60s to relieve a huge labour shortage — became the scapegoats of rising unemployment and they became the main targets.

•Policewithdogsburstintohomesat dawn across the country; Pasifika people were randomly stopped in the street. A study a decade later showed Polynesians had made up only a third of overstayers, but more than 80 percent of all prosecutions for overstaying. The majority of overstayers were actually from the United States and Europe.

•TheelectionofaNationalgovernment at the end of 1975 was followed by a fresh wave of raids against Pacific Islander communities.

Under the leadership of Robert Muldoon, the National Party had drawn on racist stereotypes during the election campaign. National set an immigration target of 5000 (down from 30,000) and was accused of stoking fears about immigration in order to win back power.

•Thedistressinganddivisiveraidsended in the late 1970s, but they damaged the relationship between the Pacific Islands and New Zealand, and tarnished New Zealand’s image of a rich, multicultural society.

•Therewaswidespreadsupportforthe raids, but opposition grew over time and predominantly ranged from the Polynesian Panthers — set up in 1971 — to church and Pasifika, Nga Tamatoa and anti-racist organisations, such as the Citizens Association for Racial Equality (CARE) and the Auckland Committee on Racism and Discrimination (ACORD).

•Ultimately,theDawnRaidsbecameuntenable — and they were also ineffective because the New Zealand economy continued to decline, despite the deportation of illegal Pacific immigrants.

In 1977, the Department of Immigration changed its procedures for handling overstayers so that these events would never be repeated.

•Despitethestrainedrelationshipthat resulted between the Pacific Islands and New Zealand, immigration to New Zealand from the Pacific Islands has increased since then, and today Auckland is the undisputed Polynesian capital of the world. — NZ Herald

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Government for this announcement but I wait with bated breath for the detail that is to accompany the apology as it unfolds.

’ —Dr Melani Anae

‘TRAUMA AND HARM’: A child peers through the door of a solicitor’s office in 1976, where hundreds sought advice on the Government’s overstayers policy. NZ Herald file picture

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CHRISTCHURCH — A Kiwi producer involved in the controversial film about the Christchurch terror attack has pulled out of the project, accepting it is “too raw”.

Philippa Campbell yesterday announced she has withdrawn from the team working on They Are Us, the proposed movie about the aftermath of the Christchurch mosque attacks which took place two years ago.

She said she “deeply regrets” the shock and hurt the announcement of the film had led to throughout New Zealand.

“I have listened to the concerns raised over recent days and I have heard the strength of people’s views. I now agree that the events of March 15, 2019, are too raw for film at this time and do not wish to be involved with a project that is causing such distress.

“When I was approached to work on the film I was moved by the filmmakers’ vision to pay respect to the victims, their families, and those who assisted them.

“I deeply regret the shock and hurt the announcement of the film has caused throughout Aotearoa.”

Campbell said the announcement was focused on the film business, and did not take enough account of the

political and human context of the story.

“It is the complexity of that context I have been reflecting on that has led me to this decision.”

Community and refugee advocate Guled Mire said news of Campbell’s withdrawal was “excellent”.

“But this is far from over,” he said in a post on Twitter.

“Keep going and sign the petition until the rest of the

crew shut down production.”Earlier yesterday Prime Minister

Jacinda Ardern again spoke out against the movie project, saying it feels “very soon and very raw”.

While she had not spoken with the filmmakers, she was sure they had heard her view.

Other producers of the movie based on the deadly Christchurch mosque attacks will carry out more consultation talks with all of the victims and their families from that fateful day.

Spokesman for the Muslim Association of Canterbury, Abdigani Ali, said after they questioned the timing of the film and raised concerns, the film producers contacted them.

“After consultation, the producers have shared the synopsis of the movie and listened to our concerns.

— NZ Herald

Kiwi producer resigns from mosque movie

Philippa Campbell

by Kurt Bayer, NZ Herald

CHRISTCHURCH — New Zealand’s top spy boss has warned there is a “realistic possibility” that the Christchurch mosque shooter’s terrorist actions could inspire another white identity extremist attack.

The country’s first annual hui on countering terrorism and violent extremism, He Whenua Taurikura, which has attracted global experts, spy chiefs, senior police bosses, and tech players opened in Christchurch today.

It comes after recommendations in the Royal Commission of Inquiry report into the March 15, 2019 terrorist attack on two Christchurch mosques.

Rebecca Kitteridge, director general of spy agency the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS), spoke as part of a panel examining the “dynamic nature of the terrorism and violent extremism risk”.

New Zealand has a responsibility, as a country, to learn lessons from March 15, Kitteridge said, and to reframe what national security could and should mean for Kiwis.

A “mature” national security conversation is critical to be able to respond to a constantly evolving threat, she said.

The March 15 attacks continue to be discussed by white nationalists in New Zealand, she told hui delegates today.

If there is a terror attack committed in New Zealand over the next 12 months, the NZSIS believes it will most likely come from an extremist lone actor who has gone under the radar, not coming to the attention of police or spy agencies, and not giving any forewarning.

Historian Dr John Battersby of Massey University’s Centre for Defence and Security Studies warned that the next terror attack is a matter of “when rather than if” and that New Zealand needs to be mindful that the last terror attack may not help prevent the next one.

The March 15 attacks were a “watershed moment in New Zealand” and have increased the risk of extremist activity, University of Auckland’s Dr Chris Wilson said.

It brought other extremists “out of the woodwork” and resulted in a spike of hate crimes against Muslims, said Wilson, who is programme director of Conflict and Terrorism Studies.

He warned that the most dangerous path of radicalisation involves violent “lone actors” outside of groups, especially people who “interact with likeminded others only online”, sharing ideas and encouraging each other.

The two-day hui will feature international speakers and experts, including representatives from social media giants Twitter and Facebook, London’s Institute for Strategic Dialogue and the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media, the Centre of Excellence for National Security in Singapore, along with Anjum Rahman of the Islamic Women’s Council and panellists from the New Zealand Jewish Council, Amnesty International NZ, government ministries and departments, and universities.

Anti-terrorism hui

POWERFUL FIGURES: He Whenua Taurikura, New Zealand’s hui on countering terrorism and violent extremism, has opened in Christchurch this morning. NZ Herald pictures

CHRISTCHURCH — Eric Jordan was able to speak to his wife Rachel moments after the helicopter she was on crashed on a Canterbury golf course, leaving her with a spate of injuries, including spinal injuries and broken bones.

“I told her it was going to be OK and we would get through it together,” he told The New Zealand Herald last night.

The helicopter was also carrying newlyweds Fay El Hanafy and Mahdi Zougub, whose wedding day it was.

The award-winning photographer was travelling with the couple to do a bridal shoot when the helicopter they were on went down at Terrace Downs Resort in Windwhistle, 80km west of Christchurch, on Saturday.

El Hanafy had surgery on Sunday after suffering a broken back, foot, and legs. Zougub also has a fractured spine and was due to have surgery yesterday.

Eric said Rachel was worried her back was broken when they spoke on the phone just after the crash and before emergency services arrived.

“I heard . . . a lot of screaming in the background that I assumed was the bride, groom and pilot, who had been injured as well.”

Rachel had given her husband’s number to someone at the scene who had called him for her.

“I just had a chance to reassure her while we waited for the rescue response team.

“I had a few words with her . . . then I heard the ambulance and rescue teams had arrived so they took her away and I just said goodbye at that point.

“I think she lost consciousness during part of the accident. She didn’t recall the moment it exactly went down, she just remembers right before and right after. I’m pretty sure the bride fainted as well.”

Rachel had her second surgery yesterday to repair damage to her feet and ankles.

She has spinal fractures, five fractured ribs, lung laceration, a fractured sternum, a fractured arm in a few places, and fractured feet and ankles.

“She told me she recalls the engine had shut off at some point, that it completely lost power in mid-air, and it seemed like the whole thing went dead.”

Rachel has a severe fear of flying and was nervous about flying south from Northland for the wedding, Eric said.

The couple moved to New Zealand from the United States in 2015 to live in Northland.

“She was actually scared to get on an airplane before she went to the wedding. She had to fly from the Bay of Islands to Christchurch, so she was scared about that flight.

“But it turned out to be the helicopter that was the big issue.”

Eric has been told to “settle in for a long journey”, with Rachel expected to be in hospital for three months.

He says he is just trying to keep her as positive as he can.

“I know a lot of the healing process relies on having hope, so I’m just trying to give her that. That’s all I can do.”

— NZ Herald

Husband tells of chaos after helicopter crash

Rachel Jordan

EXAMINING RISK: NZSIS director general Rebecca Kitteridge.

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AUCKLAND — Some Auckland rest home residents won’t be fully vaccinated until at least the end of July while others in Nelson have been done for weeks, showing a substantial disparity in the sector’s vaccine roll-out.

The New Zealand Herald can reveal significant differences in vaccination progress in rest homes across DHBs through Ministry of Health data, which detailed how many Covid vaccines have been administered to residents and staff — who were in Group 2 — as at Thursday.

As expected, highly populated areas had received the most with 10,177 first doses and 1402 second doses across the Auckland, Waitemata and Counties Manukau DHBs. Canterbury and Waikato had almost reached 7000 first doses.

Taranaki had given the least first doses with 65 alongside 18 second doses, followed by West Coast’s 242 first doses and 65 second doses.

These figures did not factor in relative staff and resident populations. The Ministry of Health refused to share this data, saying it was only used for planning purposes and could not define these groups accurately.

However, data from the New Zealand Aged Care Association showed Nelson Marlborough DHB (1336 residents) was one of the best performers with 1748 first doses and 1329 second doses, which included staff.

In contrast, Auckland had more than 20,000 rest home staff and residents in 181 facilities, but had only administered first doses to about half of them.

When asked for data breakdowns for Auckland’s three DHBs, a Northern Region Health Co-ordination Centre (NRHCC) spokesperson said there was no requirement to report such information as the roll-out was focused on the region as a whole.

Oceania Healthcare managed 40 rest

homes in about 11 of New Zealand’s DHBs — 14 in Auckland.

General manager Dr Frances Hughes lauded the efforts of the Nelson Marlborough, Hutt Valley and Lakes DHBs, saying their proactive communication led to an efficient and painless vaccine roll-out.

However, Hughes said there was a significant lack of organisation between Auckland’s DHBs, which had caused only half of her Auckland facilities to receive one dose so far.

“If they engage with us early, give us clear information and then we can plan — you can’t plan if you are kept in the dark.

“They need to show some respect and value around that . . . it is disrespectful.”

Hughes hoped her Auckland facilities

would be fully vaccinated by the end of July — when the roll-out to the general population was supposed to start.

The delay had also impacted influenza vaccine distribution. It is normally administered in March, but Hughes said her residents might not get a flu jab until August.

NRHCC vaccination programme lead Matt Hannant said all Counties Manukau facilities had received first doses as it was a priority area.

The 53 facilities in Auckland and Waitemata DHBs which hadn’t had a first dose were expected to receive it by the end of June and second doses by the end of July.

“We are pleased with the progress of the roll-out to date, particularly given the size and scale of this programme in metro

Auckland.”He believed rest homes were kept up

to date with information regarding their vaccination sessions.

The state of Auckland’s roll-out was in stark contrast to Nelson Marlborough DHB (NMDHB), which would have offered vaccinations to all rest homes by the end of the week.

NMDHB nursing associate director Dr Jill Clendon said effective coordination between primary healthcare organisations and public health staff since March had enabled such an efficient roll-out.

New Zealand Age Care Association chief executive Simon Wallace commended efforts in Nelson, but echoed the frustration felt by rest home residents in Auckland, along with people in Taranaki and Southern DHBs.

While he was pleased with the roll-out overall, he had expected up to 90 percent of first jabs would have been delivered by now and hoped DHBs would be open about any delays.

“Tell us what the problem is, tell us why the roll-out is not going as quickly as other regions and then we can understand the reasons why.”

Southern DHB Covid vaccine roll-out incident controller Hamish Brown believed the region’s roll-out to rest homes was progressing well, anticipating its 37 facilities would be offered two vaccine doses by mid-July.

Taranaki DHB Covid vaccination programme senior responsible officer Steven Parrish said rest homes first received vaccinations in mid-May and the DHB had administered first doses to eight of the region’s 26 facilities. He expected the roll-out may not be completed until early August.

Two Taranaki rest home managers said they would be getting their second doses by the end of the month. On Monday, Capital & Coast DHB announced rest home vaccinations were complete in the Wellington region.

Patchy jab roll-out at rest homes

DHB DISPARITIES: Wellington aged residential care resident Sally got her second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine yesterday. NZ Herald picture

AUCKLAND — Tributes are flowing after the death of one of Maoridom’s “great wahine leaders”.

That is how Maori Development Minister Willie Jackson described Dame Georgina Kamiria Kirby, 85, who died in Auckland Hospital on June 11.

Born at Horohoro, near Rotorua, Dame Georgina was the eldest of 11 children — her father was a farmer.

She attended Horohoro School, Rotorua High School and the University of Auckland.

Dame Georgina was widely acknowledged for her advocacy work for women and the Maori community.

Jackson also described Kirby, of Ngati Kahungunu, as “innovative, a visionary and strongminded”.

“When she believed in a kaupapa she put all her efforts behind it,” he said.

Kirby was president of the Maori Women’s Welfare League from 1983 to 1987, where she launched smoking and weight reduction campaigns.

She also formed Maori Women’s Development Incorporated, which helped Maori women who could not obtain loan grants.

It now has assets of more than $4 million and has helped hundreds of wahine

into businesses, Jackson said.Dame Georgina’s list of

“far and wide” achievements, also included her being the Commissioner of New Zealand at the World Expo from 1983 to 1986, he said.

In 1984, she launched the Rapuora Maori Women’s Health Survey, and the following year established Whare Rapuora Health and Wellness clinics throughout New Zealand.

Her tireless work was also recognised in the 1989 New Year Honours when she was appointed a Companion of the Queen’s Service Order for community service.

She was also recognised in 1993 with the NZ Suffrage Centennial Medal and became a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to Maori in 1994.

Also in 1993, she was among 16 leaders who began the original Mana Wahine Inquiry claim — that inquiry is currently before the Waitangi Tribunal.

“It was an honour to have known Dame Georgina and she will be sorely missed and my thoughts and wishes go out to her whanau,” Jackson said.

Dame Georgina’s funeral service was held on Monday at Te Mahurehure Marae in Auckland’s Point Chevalier.

— Rotorua Daily Post

Tributes flow for ‘visionary’ leader

GREAT WAHINE LEADER: Dame Georgina Kirby, 85, was farewelled at Te Mahurehure Marae in Auckland yesterday. NZ Herald file picture

BRIEFS

Nurse loses job after assaultWELLINGTON — A nurse’s employment has been

terminated after assaulting a man in his 50s with an intellectual disability and serious physical health conditions.

It comes after police and the healthcare facility where the man was staying investigated a previous assault complaint by the man about the same nurse, which was dropped after the nurse and another colleague denied it had happened.

A later complaint involving the man being dragged across the kitchen into the living room before getting him on the ground and sitting on him, resulted in the nurse losing his job.

Yesterday, a Health and Disability Commission (HDC) investigation found the nurse — who had more than 30 years’ work experience — in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights for his care of the man residing in a secure facility.

The name of the man, nurse and the facility were not included in the report for privacy reasons. — NZME

Former medic slams wait timesMOSGIEL — A former St John paramedic says the

system his former colleagues are having to work under is unacceptable.

Ian Ridley decided to take an injured elderly man to hospital himself, following a more than 60-minute wait for an ambulance to arrive in Mosgiel yesterday.

The former paramedic said he had the greatest respect for St John paramedics, but not the “faulty” system under which they operated.

“It is an incredibly big and, unfortunately, repetitive issue.”

St John coastal Otago territory manager Doug Third said the service was having to deal with a marked increase in demand for ambulances.

Two ambulances had been dispatched to the Mosgiel case about 12.30pm yesterday, but both were diverted to time-critical, life-threatening incidents, he said.

A welfare check was attempted for the Mosgiel patient, but the caller was no longer at the scene, Third said. — Otago Daily Times

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by Robin Martin, RNZ

NEW PLYMOUTH — A Taranaki high school principal says a number of his students are being monitored after suffering minor injuries when their school bus collided with a van on State Highway 3 near Ngaere yesterday morning.

The 22-year-old driver of the van was seriously injured. He is being assessed at the Emergency Department at the Taranaki Base Hospital in New Plymouth and is in a stable condition.

Francis Douglas Memorial College principal Tim Tuck said between 20 and 30 students were travelling into New Plymouth on the bus from Hawera.

Tuck said the students from the New Plymouth Catholic boys high school have had quite a shock.

“There’s a few minor injuries but all are in hand and the majority have gone back into class. We wll continue to monitor them over the week and further,” he said.

“There were definitely a few boys who were shaken up and those boys have requested to go to guidance or the matron regarding their wellbeing.”

Tuck said the school’s thoughts and prayers are with the injured van driver and driver of the bus.

A spokesperson for Tranzit confirmed the bus involved in the accident was one of its charter buses.

“I can tell you that there are no injuries to our passengers and no injuries to our driver, which is a huge relief and our thoughts go out to everyone involved. Our passengers were transferred on to another bus and taken to school and our regional manager is visiting with the school to offer support.”

As information was still being gathered about the accident the company was unable to comment further.

Police said it was notified about the accident on Mountain Road at Ngaere at about 7.30am. The road was closed for several hours but police were able to reopen State Highway 3 shortly before midday.

Students left shaken after bus collides with van

WELLINGTON — Complaints had been made for years about the state of a “derelict” Wellington property destroyed in a fire on Sunday night, says the owner of a house next door.

One person was taken to hospital after two properties were destroyed, and another two badly damaged by the major fire overnight.

Police are treating the fire as suspicious.

Bill Guthrie, who owns 127 Hanson Street — also destroyed in the fire — said he had been complaining to council for years about the state of number 125, where the fire is believed to have started.

“It has been derelict for probably 15 years at a guess. We have approached the council a number of times about it.”

“They said they can’t do anything

about it if the rates are being paid on the property . . . despite the fact that there was a fire risk there was very little we could do.”

He had bought his three-bedroom property 40 years ago and said “a lot of love” and memories had gone into it.

Its four tenants were thankfully all accounted for, but the house would likely have to be demolished, he said.

Wellington City Council confirmed complaints had been made about the state of 125 Hanson Street.

Council’s Acting Chief Operating Officer James Roberts says council public health, building compliance and community services staff had been working with police and the property owner to try to reduce risks at the property.

Hanson Street resident Nick Reid said he often walked past the house that had caught fire, and had believed it to be abandoned.

“I’ve never seen anyone come in or out of it. It is really overgrown, there’s all this rubbish out on the stairs going up into the house.”

The blaze broke out in the property just after 10.30 on Sunday night.

It quickly spread to three other properties in Hanson Street and Adelaide Road — with 19 fire crews working to bring the fire under control until about 1am.

One member of the public was taken to hospital and two firefighters received minor injuries, but everyone else has been accounted for, with no other reports of injuries. — NZ Herald

House at heart of blaze ‘derelict for years’

DUNEDIN — A couple who were stabbed as they tried to stop an attack at a Dunedin supermarket says the incident changed their lives forever.

Vanessa Andrews and Jorge Fuenzalida were both badly injured in a stabbing at Countdown Dunedin Central last month.

In a statement released via police, they said what happened that day was still very much on their minds.

“We try to help people where we can, and that day we heard people in distress. During the process we both got badly injured.”

They did not wish to provide more details as the case was still before the courts, but said it had changed their

lives forever.“We still have a long way to recover,

but we are getting there one day at a time — with some good days and some not so good days.”

They thanked those who were involved in the response to the stabbing, from supermarket staff to police, St John, and the staff at Dunedin Hospital.

Fuenzalida is a prison guard at Otago Corrections Facility.

“We would also like to express our thanks to all the staff at Otago Corrections Facility for their ongoing support.

“From the beginning they have been outstanding.” — Otago Daily Times

Stabbing ‘changed our lives’

by Derek Cheng, NZ Herald

WELLINGTON — Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said yesterday that she felt she had been “misled” over the latest book about her, saying it was pitched as a book about women and leadership and it would be based on interviewing up to 10 political leaders.

Supriya Vani, one of the book’s authors, said that after the interview, she felt Ardern deserved her own book rather than just a chapter in a book.

Jacinda Ardern — Leading with Empathy, by Supriya Vani and Carl A. Harte, is available now and it received a lot of publicity over the weekend.

Promotional material around the book says that the authors built “their narrative through Vani’s exclusive interviews with Ardern, as well as the Prime Minister’s public statements and speeches and the words of those who know her”.

However, Ardern, speaking at her post-Cabinet press conference yesterday, said she had been told she would be one of “several” interviewees. “I generally have a bit of a policy of not really engaging in any efforts to write anything specifically of that nature — about me.”

She has, however, agreed from time to time to contribute to books about women and leadership. “That was the nature of the request I received in this example.”

Ardern was approached about the book in 2019, and she was told then that she would be one of 10 political leaders to be interviewed. “On that basis, given it was not specific to me, I was happy to contribute.”

Asked if she had therefore been misled, she said: “Clearly I was.”

She would be seeking to ensure that her statements had not been

misrepresented in any way in the book.

“And certainly the claim that it was an exclusive interview for the purpose of writing a book of that nature is not true. I will certainly ask for that to be clarified.”

Vani told The New Zealand Herald there had been a misunderstanding.

“We (my co-author and I) never said that I interviewed her for her biography. We have always said that it was a project that I was personally doing to interview women leaders. After interviewing Ardern, we felt she deserved a complete biography about her (rather) than just a chapter. It was our personal decision to go for a complete biography.”

Vani said that it was not an authorised biography. “So the Prime Minister is right. I interviewed her for a project on women leaders and I was personally so moved by her compassion that we felt (her story) deserved a complete biography — to be shared with little girls all over the world. It was completely our decision.

“We decided to go with Ardern exclusively as I felt she had the same compassion in her that I have sensed in other women Nobel Peace Laureates whom I have interviewed for my previous book — Battling Injustice: 16 women Nobel Peace Laureates.

“It’s her (Ardern’s) compassion which moved us to share her story.”

Ardern also repeated her discomfort yesterday with the proposal for the They Are Us film, but she said it was not up to her to share an opinion on whether the film should go ahead, or whether it should receive any state funding to help its production. “It’s not for me to say what projects should or should not go ahead. It would be seen to be wrong if I intervened in that way.”

Ardern is Associate Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage, and Cabinet Manual rules state: “No minister should endorse in any media, any product or service.”

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SEEKING CLARIFICATION: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she gave an interview to the book’s author, Supriya Vani, on the understanding she would be one of 10 political leaders interviewed. NZ Herald picture

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WHANGAREI — A student nurse who drowned in Northland in 2019 was a confident swimmer but was likely not aware of the hazards of swimming near waterfalls, a coroner has found.

Kenny Espinosa died on January 11, 2019, when swimming with friends at the waterhole below Otuihau, or the Whangarei Falls.

His friends tried to save him — including trying to throw a log to help him float — but could not reach him before he went under, Coroner Alison Mills said in a finding released yesterday.

Espinosa, 28, was originally from the Philippines but was living in Auckland. He and other nursing friends had travelled to Whangarei to see off their friend Benjamin Baril, who was moving to the city.

The group went swimming at the

Mermaid Pools at Matapouri Beach before stopping on the way back around 4.30pm at the falls, where Espinosa and Baril decided to take a second dip.

The pair asked a tourist emerging from the waterhole if it was very deep, and were told that it was. They initially swam in the shallows, but Espinosa then headed for deeper water.

Baril, who was not a strong swimmer, stayed behind, but “Mr Espinosa was known to be a competent swimmer”, the Coroner said.

Espinosa then started to struggle after about two minutes, according to Baril — calling for help and waving his hand in distress. Baril yelled out for others to help, and tried to throw a log toward Espinosa but was unsuccessful.

Two other tourists also dived into the water but could not reach Espinosa, despite repeatedly diving to look for him. Another member of the public called 111.

By the time police arrived Espinosa had been under water at least 10 minutes, the coroner found. Police were unable to find him in the water, which had poor visibility.

The following morning police divers and Search and Rescue found his body, about 25m from the edge of the waterhole, in 6m-deep water.

The coroner expressed concerns about the lack of signage at the waterhole. While there were some signs in the area, they were limited and were not visible from the waterhole area, she said.

She recommended the Whangarei District Council review the signage at the falls, and consult with emergency services about appropriate content — such as warning about depth, slippery rocks, sudden dropoffs and general advice about buoyancy in fresh water.

Signs should be placed on either side of the waterhole as well as at the top of

the falls, she said. She also wanted the council to instal lifesaving equipment such as a lifebuoy at the falls — saying such a device “may have increased the chance of Mr Espinosa’s survival”.

The council has said it will comply with the recommendations.

Lifebuoy could have saved swimmer

PREVENTABLE DEATH: Kenny Espinosa, 28, died at Whangarei Falls in January 2019 while swimming with a friend. His body was not found till the following day. Picture supplied

AUCKLAND — Cheating at the University of Auckland is allegedly widespread, with claims students sitting online exams are gathering on group calls to discuss the answers.

The university is now reportedly investigating after being alerted to the issue.

A student, who did not want to be named, said the university decided to host all exams online this year, for all faculties, in case there was another Covid-19 lockdown.

However, the new system was “entirely trust-based” with students required to log-in and sign an honesty disclosure at the start of each exam.

“While our mid-semester tests (which we sat on campus) were heavily monitored with our photo-IDs checked and the test conditions supervised, the online Inspera exams aren’t being monitored in any way.”

About an hour before an exam the student sat last week, they received an invitation to attend a “discord channel”.

“I joined the channel and found 38 other students all on a group call, waiting for the Inspera exam to open so that they could share answers and pool knowledge to complete the exam together.

“There was a similar group of students sharing knowledge for (another) exam last week, and there is another plan in place for our exam today.”

The groups of students were getting together at each other’s houses to sit the exams together on individual devices.

“I have had friends phone me during exams to ask for help on certain questions. And in the middle of our chemistry exam last week, another student sent a copy of his answers to a Facebook group chat that I am in, just in case any of us were struggling and wanted to copy.”

The final exams were worth up to 50 percent of their final grade and the student said it was “unacceptable” for the university to be holding its exams in this way.

“The cheating is prolific — more than half of the students in my papers are cheating in some form.”

A spokesperson from the University of Auckland told Newshub it was recently made aware of the cheating allegations.

“The university has mechanisms to detect cheating and will follow up and penalise where there is evidence of breaches,” they said.

“While we are not aware of cheating having taken place in these online exams, we will be investigating the allegation.”

— NZ Herald

Cheating ‘prolific’ at University of Auckland

by Hamish Cardwell, RNZ

AUCKLAND — The Auckland chapter of the international youth climate action group School Strike 4 Climate has admitted it is racist and is disbanding itself.

The group helped organise the annual school strikes which have quickly become the largest mass climate protest movement in the country. Young and old take to the streets in their thousands, demanding action on the looming climate crisis.

But Maori and Pacific people have also been saying for some time they have been marginalised and shut out of the movement.

In a statement at the weekend, School Strike 4 Climate Auckland said it had been a “racist, white-dominated space” and that it was dissolving the group. It declined to be be interviewed by RNZ.

“School Strike 4 Climate Auckland has avoided, ignored, and tokenised Black, indigenous and people of colour’s voices and demands, especially those of Pasifika and Maori individuals in the climate activism space,” it said.

It said it made the decision to disband on the suggestion and guidance of Black, indigenous and people of colour members of the group — and other activists and organisations.

It would not hold any more strikes and its members have separated from the national school strike team.

It said people of colour were disproportionately affected by climate change, so the fight for climate justice should be led by their voices and needs, not Pakeha ones.

The Auckland group said disbanding the organisation was well overdue.

“We apologise for the hurt, burnout, and trauma. We also apologise for the further trauma caused by our slow action to take responsibility.

“We recognise that this apology can never be enough to make up for our actions on top of years of systemic and systematic oppression, racism, and the silencing of those who are the most affected by climate change.

“This apology is just one of our steps in taking accountability for our actions.”

It said it has been racist and dismissive towards people who have rightly spoken out against it.

It also said racism was a big problem

within the wider School Strike 4 Climate NZ organisation, but that it could not speak for the wider group and had made the decision to dissolve independently of it.

Anevili from youth indigenous climate action group Te Ara Whatu welcomed the move.

She said there has been racism in the school strikes group for a few years, but the issue was also more widespread.

“We have faced a lot of groups and a lot of people in the climate space that . . . are racist.

“We see that all the time.”Anevili said Pakeha-dominated

climate groups get all the air time and resources, but they do not grasp the legacy of colonial violence and oppression.

Young Wellington City

councillor Tamatha Paul, who holds the climate change portfolio, said racism was common in environmental groups in Aotearoa.

“I have definitely seen it as a young Maori person who is now responsible for climate change (actions) in Wellington and seeing the layers of discrimination that exists within these movements.

“It is not just the school strikes you know, it’s everywhere.”

She supports the disbanding, and said Maori, Pacific, disabled and poorer

people would bear the brunt of the impact of climate change, so must be at the forefront of the fight.

The struggle for the environment was intrinsically linked with capitalism, racism, and all the systemic failures in society, she said.

“If you try to attack one without taking into account the others, then you will inevitably fail because you’re not dismantling the system that is enabling this destruction to occur.

“So that is why it is important that people with lived experience and real-life experience of that systemic inequality are the ones to lead the solutions on those.”

She said white leaders had been the face of the environmental movement for too long, when indigenous people had been calling for action on climate change for decades.

In its statement, School Strike 4 Climate Auckland said it discouraged any Pakeha-led groups from moving into the space left by its closure, and it directed people to some Maori and Pacific-led organisations.

Anevili said dissolving the group was the right choice because the movement was bigger, and more important, than any one group.

“I think there is this panic that we tend to have when groups disband where we think, ‘it’s not good for the movement’.”

Anevili said she hoped those who were involved in the Auckland school strikes group would stay on in the movement, and support the indigenous voices leading the way.

Climate group disbands‘We apologise for the hurt, burnout and trauma’

DISSOLVING THE GROUP: School Strike 4 Climate Auckland has announced it is disbanding due to being “a racist, white-dominated space”. NZ Herald picture

People of colour were disproportionately affected by climate change, so the fight for climate justice should be lead by their voices and needs, not Pakeha ones.

The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, June 15, 202110 NATIONAL NEWS

WELLINGTON — A lifeless New Zealand sharemarket had one its lightest trading days of the year and is waiting for some direction from the United States, with the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting this week.

The market was also missing overseas investors with the Australian market closed for Queen’s Birthday Weekend in all states except Queensland and Western Australia.

The S&P/NZX 50 Index did rise in the morning but then drifted all afternoon until the last half hour when it recovered most of the losses. The index closed at 12,562.17, up 11.78 points or 0.09 percent, after reaching the morning high of 12,583.45.

A minuscule 29.65 million shares worth $93.58 million changed hands, and there were 104 gainers and 40 decliners over the whole market.

Shane Solly, portfolio manager with Harbour Asset Management, said people will be watching the outcome of the FOMC meeting which will be reviewing US economic conditions and monetary policy.

“There is a contest emerging between rising inflation and whether central banks will wind back their supportive monetary policy. In recent weeks we’ve seen relatively high inflation statistics but long-term interest rates have fallen, instead of rising as was expected. The tone and words from the FOMC will be closely followed.”

Solly said the pull-back in bond yields has allowed the local market to bounce back, with the leading index having increased more than 1.5 percent this month.

There were some decent moves on the light volume. Heavyweight Fisher & Paykel Healthcare

once again dictated terms on the market after falling 79c or 2.64 percent to $29.13, Auckland International Airport was down 11c to $7.43; and Mainfreight shed $1.21 to $74.29.

Z Energy fell 8c or 3.03 percent to $2.56 after the Climate Change Commission’s final report said nearly all cars imported by 2035 must be electric, thus affecting fuel demand.

The milk operators had a better day, with a2 Milk rising 16c or 2.61 percent to $6.29, and Synlait gaining 13c or 3.87 percent to $3.49. Solly said a2 Milk has been pushed around by international investors lately and they were not as active.

Ebos Group climbed 79c or 2.39 percent to $33.90; Freightways rose 12c to $12.22; Restaurant Brands was up 30c or 2.2 percent to $13.92; Fletcher Building gained 6c to $7.88; Port of Tauranga increased 15c or 2.05 percent to $7.45; Summerset Group Holdings collected 11c to $12.99; and Sanford picked up 15c or 3.06

percent to $5.05.Heartland Group Holdings climbed 12c or 6.09

percent to $2.09; Oceania Healthcare was up 3c or 2.05 percent to $1.49; Scales Corporation gained 10c or 2.11 percent to $4.85; Accordant Group rose 8c or 4.94 percent to $1.70; Enprise increased 13c or 6.13 percent to $2.25; and Property for Industry was up 4.5c to $2.895.

Meridian Energy said its retail sales rose 23.4 percent in May, with the biggest increase in small medium business, up 49.2 percent. National hydro storage lifted from 67 percent to 70 percent of historical average, with South Island storage reaching 75 percent and North Island storage unchanged at 35 percent at June 10.

Meridian slipped 1c to $5.34, while Contact rose 6c to $8.45, Mercury increased 11c to $6.43; and Genesis gained 5c to $3.43.

Gentrack declined 6c or 2.78 percent to $2.10. — NZ Herald

SHAREMARKET YESTERDAY

QUEENSTOWN — Sir Eion Edgar, a Queenstown-based investor, businessman, philanthropist, husband and father, is being remembered as “a good Kiwi man”.

Edgar, who had been fighting pancreatic cancer since late last year, died yesterday afternoon aged 76.

Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson, in his role as Minister for Sport and Recreation, and Queenstown Lakes District mayor Jim Boult were among those to issue tributes after Edgar’s death.

Edgar made a big difference in New Zealand as a philanthropist in sport, education, youth, arts, sports and health.

He was the chairman of numerous charitable trusts and organisations, including the Edgar Olympic Foundation, New Zealand Dementia Prevention Trust, and Winter Games NZ Charitable Trust.

He was also an official patron of Diabetes New Zealand, the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame and the New Zealand Football Foundation.

Edgar also helped in the creation of the University of Otago’s Edgar Diabetes and Obesity Research Centre, and in the creation of the southern hemisphere’s largest single-

building indoor sports arena, Dunedin’s Edgar Centre.

He was the chancellor of the University of Otago between 1999 and 2003 and awarded an honorary doctorate of laws for outstanding service.

Edgar spent 20 years as the chairman of Forsyth Barr Group in Dunedin, until his retirement in 2018.

Boult, his friend of 36 years, described Edgar as “a good Kiwi man”.

“He’s been an absolute gift to our district, and the whole of New Zealand,” Boult said.

“I’m devastated.“He’s just been one of those people,

whenever there’s a been a cause Eion’s been there to support it.”

He was generous not only with his own money, but also in convincing others to support causes as well, Boult said.

“He will be enormously missed.”The mayor offered his sincere condolences

to the Edgar family on behalf of the district.Robertson said Edgar had made a

significant impact within and beyond the sport sector. “Sir Eion’s energy, drive and generosity has been truly immense.

“He leaves a tremendous legacy and on

behalf of all New Zealanders, I would like to extend my thanks for everything he has done and how this has benefited people and communities,” the minister said.

“As he would often remind people, we were both Otago University graduates and share our love for the region.

“Even as a young student president nearly 30 years ago I appreciated working with Sir Eion.

“We may not have agreed on everything, but he was always respectful and encouraging — I will miss him greatly,”

Forsyth Barr issued a statement saying it was “deeply saddened” at the death of a former chairman, colleague, mentor and friend.

“Eion always wanted the best for the firm and encouraged everyone to take the opportunities and enjoy what we do. He loved Forsyth Barr and seeing the firm develop.

“New Zealand has lost a truly iconic and visionary leader.”

The company expressed its condolences and best wishes to Edgar’s wife of 50 years, Lady Jan Edgar, to his sons Jonty, Hamish and Adam and to the whole Edgar family. — Otago Daily Times

Philanthropist Edgar ‘absolute gift to our district’

GENEROUS: Sir Eion Edgar with his wife Lady Jan, on his 70th birthday in 2014.

Picture supplied

by Tamsyn Parker, NZ Herald

AUCKLAND — A research project aimed at helping couples feel more comfortable about talking about money is looking for candidates to take part in its pilot.

Ayesha Scott, a finance professor at AUT University, has teamed up with Good Shepherd and secured about $25,000 in funding to begin a pilot study testing a toolkit it has designed to help people build healthy financial relationships.

Scott, whose research has involved money and financial abuse in relationships, said it was looking for individuals and couples to take part and test out the programme.

“We know that New Zealanders don’t talk about money. The Commission for Financial Capability has done some fairly terrifying work around how many of us as New Zealanders don’t actually talk about money with our partners.”

She said this could range from not telling a partner how much they earn or the subject of debt infidelity, where individuals keep secret how much debt they have racked up.

“What we want to do is give

New Zealanders the tools to start these conversations with their partners but also have more constructive conversations, because we all know that money can lead to conflict in relationships.”

Scott said conflict over finances was often cited as a leading cause of divorce.

“And we know that during this time of the pandemic a lot of these issues are cropping up for couples. Financial distress is stressful enough without having to worry about having an argument with your partner about money.”

So why don’t we talk about money?

Scott says we have a lot of emotion attached to our personal relationship with money that then makes it very difficult for us to approach the topic with our partner because they might be

coming at it from a completely different point of view.

“The whole conversation can break down and get a little bit blame-ridden pretty quickly.”

She said the online toolkit was set up in a modular format, so if someone needed to start up a conversation about a topic such as debt they could get ideas on how to start the conversation.

“It allows individuals to do a little bit of the pre-work that helps them become comfortable about approaching their partner about money and then hopefully it is going to lead to a more constructive conversation.”

Scott hopes that by shifting the attitudes among the general population it will also help those in financial abusive relationships.

“To solve that problem, which is a complex social problem that New Zealand faces with family

violence, we need to get all New Zealanders who aren’t living in violent relationships having healthier relationships. That is going to hopefully shift how we collectively view money.”

Scott hopes to get enough people involved in the pilot to be able to release the toolkit to the public by September.

“We are hoping to get service providers on board — debt solution providers, big banks — and government to refer through to the toolkit and put it in front of as many eyes as possible.

“I think this is a big gap and it is hard to build financial capability across our population if we are not chatting to each other about these matters. If we are talking to our partners it is causing stress and conflict, which it doesn’t need to be.”

The toolkit will be free to the public to use.

Scott says part of making it easier to talk about money is realising everyone has their own individual relationship with it.

“Just being a bit self-aware when going into conversations that the person opposite you might have a different base.”

She says an example of this is someone asking if it is OK to spend money on something.

“That person is not asking permission to spend that money, that person is wanting to let the other one know — ‘Hey, I want to spend this amount of money, can we fit that into this week’s budget? Is there anything I’m not aware of that is coming up?’”

Scott says addressing any concerns early is also key rather than letting concern build up about an issue like debt.

“Addressing things early is always going to lead to a better outcome than waiting until after the fact.”

Those starting a new relationship should also feel OK to talk about money, she says.

“We need to normalise talking about money early on — there’s no reason why we have to be signing up to commit to someone before you have some of these difficult conversations.

“I think checking you are on the same page with debt and spending is really important as early as possible. There is no reason to be walking down the aisle and finding out the person you are with has a student loan you didn’t know about.”

She says the key is to be open and honest about your finances and for your partner to do the same.

Talking about money‘

Financial distress is stressful enough without having to worry about having an argument with your partner about money

’ —Ayesha Scott

Pilot project aims to help couples with difficult conversations

The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, June 15, 2021 BUSINESS 11

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, ONLINE COMMENTS

Will Dobbie is to be thanked for his response about buying solar power from houses for the grid. Incredibly, this is the first time, after the idea has been floated on and off for a decade, that any reasonable objection has been made, by technicians or politicians.

However, although I have no idea how complex it is to synchronise the AC waves of many contributors, I do know the problem has been

solved in many countries, and that offering a decent buy-back price is what encourages solar installations. Germany has a million homes solar-powered, which with other installations provide 8 percent of its electricity. What is so different here?

Further, I was not talking about a “few” such providers, but a large majority of houses. That is the whole point.

GAVIN MACLEAN

AC issue solved elsewhere The issue of councillor meeting attendance was highlighted recently at a rates review meeting where numbers really mattered.

We are 16 months away from our next local government election, and some of the existing councillors will be putting their names forward.

So it is timely to see a review of our representatives’ attendances at the council’s committee, full council and

workshop meetings.Now that councillors are

paid not by their actual attendance and participation, but by an annual salary, I am aware of some interesting changes and emerging patterns.

Would it be possible for your paper to print these meeting attendances, as a guide to our community of just how our representatives measure up?

MARGARET THORPE

Attendance check timely

Re: Profit over people . . . June 11 column.

Vaping is not smoking. Vaping is the key for going smokefree. Vape shops are providing a public health service at no cost to public health.

HAMISH C. BOWLYMelbourne

Vape juice invariably contains nicotine — sometimes enough nicotine to make one see “cats in the carpet” meow!

My husband vapes and

although the strength of his chosen juice gives me a headache in a confined space, it is preferable to him cigarette smoking.

People can still become addicted to vaping, so why would you put a vape shop by a high school? The only reason I can think of is to cynically entice younger customers to vape.

Gisborne is a small place and the vape shops should be only located in the town centre.

LARA MEYER

More on vape shop location

EDITORIAL

The “dawn raids” of the 1970s have been a stain on this country for nearly half a century, a recurring nightmare for our Polynesian community who lived through it, and another example of the notions of white superiority that lay front and centre in numerous government policies of last century.

It is remarkable that an official apology has taken this long and a stepped-up campaign begun this year, leading up to their 50th anniversary, by the Poylnesian Panthers — a then revolutionary social justice movement formed on June 16, 1971 to target racial inqualities carried out against Maori and Pacific Islanders in Tamaki Makaurau/Auckland.

Anyone who thought the raids were just about dealing with overstayers can learn otherwise from the fact Polynesians made up only a third of overstayers at the time, but more than 80 percent of all prosecutions for overstaying. Most overstayers in the 1970s were from the United States and Europe.

Samoans and Tongans had been welcomed here in the 1950s and ’60s to relieve a labour shortage. In 1974 the New Zealand government clamped down, with police targeting the Pacific community generally in traumatic early-morning raids, seeking out overstayers.

As Minister for Pacific Peoples Aupito William Sio said yesterday, after sharing the impact of a raid on his own family: “We felt as a community we were invited . . . We were coming to the aid of a country when they needed us, and when they decided they no longer needed us they turned on us.

“Trust was broken. First and foremost the apology is about rebuilding trust for the next generation,” said Sio.

The apology will take place on Saturday, June 26 in a ceremony at Auckland’s Town Hall.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said it would be in line with previous government apologies to Samoa, for injustices arising from New Zealand’s administration in its earlier years, and to our Chinese community “for the discrimination suffered by those subjected to the poll tax and other practices”. Both those apologies were made in 2002.

Ardern said the apology would not involve compensation or consideration of a broad amnesty programme being advocated by the Green Party; immigration issues would be looked as part of a wider review process, she said.

“An apology can never reverse what happened or undo the damage caused, but we can acknowledge it and we can seek to right a wrong.”

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Apology at last to Pacific community

by Danielle van Dalen

IT’S no secret that New Zealand has an ageing population. Projections show that in the 20 years between 2016 and 2036 there will be a 77 percent increase of New Zealanders aged over 65, and 132.4 percent increase of New Zealanders aged over 80.

Such significant demographic shift is already starting to impact our infrastructure, economy, and healthcare system — and that impact is only going to get bigger. To survive with the values of our society intact, we need to be active in respecting our elders right through to the very end of life — even, and especially, when it comes at a cost. One area this must include is the capacity of our hospice and palliative care services to support dying people well.

Palliative medicine is going to become much more necessary, with a large older population and cancers and chronic illnesses becoming more common at the end of life. This end-of-

life medical care focuses on quality of life by relieving pain and suffering, whether physical, social, psychological or spiritual.

One of the big gaps in our ability to provide this kind of quality care is that we’re currently not educating or training our medical staff so that every doctor and nurse feels equipped to walk alongside families and whanau right to the end of life.

Medical practitioners I’ve spoken to have highlighted this gap, saying that every medical student will have just a matter of days training in palliative care in comparison to months of training in obstetrics learning how to deliver a baby. This is despite the fact that almost every doctor will work with dying patients during their career, while a comparatively tiny percentage will go on to actually deliver a baby.

As it stands, the medical system will rely on doctors and nurses who don’t specialise in palliative care. As palliative care experts explain, “the vast majority of people who die expected deaths will be cared for by health practitioners for whom managing dying is not their primary area of expertise and was often not

part of their training”.Workforce service forecasts already tell us that

“there are not enough doctors training to become palliative care medicine specialists”.

We need more palliative care specialists, but to meet the huge coming need, palliative care must be a basic foundation of medical understanding across the profession. This will ensure that statements like “junior doctors still report that (palliative care) is the area in which they feel most unprepared and which causes them the greatest distress,” are no longer the norm.

To change this, our universities and medical schools need to ensure that every graduating nurse or doctor feels confident in their ability to not only cure patients well, but also to walk alongside them and their whanau right through to the very end of life.

Getting end-of-life care right is essential in an ageing population. It’s a practical way of respecting our elders, and it’s something each of us would hope for at the end of our lives.

■ Danielle is a researcher for Maxim Institute, currently focused on end-of-life care.

Huge palliative retraining needed

Re: A wellbeing approach to retain, attract employees.

These “how to make your employees feel good at work” pieces never mention pay. It makes me suspect they are just about getting more out of your employee without sharing the rewards. A well-paid employee is less likely to leave. An employee who is able

to afford somewhere decent to live, or doesn’t have to worry about paying bills, is certainly going to be a happier person at work. My guess is that in reality the thinking behind this kind of advice is all about keeping profits healthy more than the employees.

STUART MORIARTY-PATTEN

All about healthy profits

Re: Lifelong dedication to education, June 14 obituary.

Peter’s obituary did not do justice to his cricketing prowess. Peter was a fine cricketer who represented NZ U20 on a tour of Australia in 1959/60. He also represented Wellington at NZ U23 tournaments before his teaching career brought him to Tolaga Bay and then Gisborne. He represented Poverty Bay regularly between 1964 and the early 1970s.

Although mainly an off spin bowler, he was also

a useful batsman. Most memorably in 1966/67 he scored a match-winning 79 when Poverty Bay beat a strong Hawke’s Bay team full of Central Districts players.

PAT MALCON, Hamilton

“Mr Elliott said much of that kaupapa at Lytton High School started with Husky Preston, Mr Gibson’s predecessor.”

Correction: Mr Gibson’s predecessor as Lytton principal was Mr Kerry List.

TONY LEE

Fine record as cricketer

I am researching and compiling historic data on my grandmother’s family, and wish to ask through your newspaper, “Where is Joseph Thomas, husband of Esther Hogan?”

I’m looking to make contact

with descendants of the following names: Hogan, Garry, Thomas, Leslie, Bissell, Sherratt.

Thank you. My email address is rlee580@gmail.com

JOHANNA LEE, Taupo

Thomas/Hogan research . . .

The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, June 15, 202112 OPINION

BRUSSELS — NATO leaders on Monday declared China a constant security challenge and said the Chinese are working to undermine global order, a message in sync with President Joe Biden’s efforts to get allies to speak out with a more unified voice against China’s trade, military and human rights practices.

In a summit statement, the leaders said that China’s goals and “assertive behaviour present systemic challenges to the rules-based international order and to areas relevant to alliance security.”

While the 30 heads of state and government avoided calling China a rival, they expressed concern about what they said were its “coercive policies,” the opaque ways it is modernising its armed forces and its use of disinformation.

They called on Beijing to uphold its international commitments and to act responsibly in the international system.

Biden, who arrived at the summit after three days of consulting with Group of Seven allies in England, pushed for the G7 communique there that called out what it said were forced labour practices and other human rights violations impacting Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities in the western Xinjiang province. The president said he was satisfied with the communique, although differences remain among the allies about how forcefully to criticise Beijing.

Biden has also used his eight-day trip to Europe to urge allies to work more closely in pressing Russian President Vladimir Putin over his government’s

treatment of political dissidents and to do more to stem cyber attacks originating from Russia that have targeted private companies and governments around the globe.

The new Brussels communique states plainly that the NATO nations “will engage China with a view to defending the security interests of the alliance.”

But as Biden faced with the G7 communique, some allies bristled at the NATO effort to speak out on China.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said NATO’s decision to name China as a threat “shouldn’t be overstated” because Beijing, like Russia, is also a partner in some areas. China is Germany’s top trading partner and is heavily dependent on Russia in fulfilling the country’s energy needs.

Merkel noted that “when you look at the cyber threats, the hybrid threats, when you look at the cooperation between Russia and China, you can’t just ignore China”. But she added that it was important to “find the right balance” as China is also a partner on many issues.

“I think it’s very important, just like we do in Russia, to always make the offer of political discussions, political discourse, in order to come up with solutions,” Merkel said. “But where there are threats, and I said they’re in the hybrid field too, then as NATO you have to be prepared.”

France’s President Emmanuel Macron urged the alliance not to let China distract it from what he saw as more pressing issues facing NATO, including the fight against terrorism and security

issues related to Russia.“I think it is very important not to

scatter our efforts and not to have biases in our relation to China,” Macron said.

The Chinese Embassy to the United Kingdom on Monday issued a statement saying the G7 communique “deliberately slandered China and arbitrarily interfered in China’s internal affairs,” and exposed the “sinister intentions of a few countries, such as the United States”. There was no immediate reaction from the Chinese government to the new NATO statement.

Biden arrived at his first NATO summit as president as leading members declared it a pivotal moment for an alliance beleaguered during the presidency of Donald Trump, who questioned the relevance of the multilateral organisation.

Shortly after arriving at the alliance’s headquarters for the first NATO summit of his presidency, Biden sat down with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and underscored the US commitment to Article 5 of the alliance charter, which spells out that an attack on one member is an attack on all and is to be met with a collective response.

“Article 5 we take as a sacred obligation,” Biden said. “I want NATO to know America is there.”

It was a sharp shift in tone from the past four years, when Trump called the alliance “obsolete” and complained that it allowed for “global freeloading” countries to spend less on military defence at the expense of the US. — AP

‘Systemic challenge’NATO declares China a global security risk

HONG KONG — The French joint operator of a Chinese nuclear plant near Hong Kong said on Monday that the plant is dealing with a “performance issue” but is currently operating within safety limits, following a report of a potential radioactive leak.

The Taishan Nuclear Power Plant is jointly owned by China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group and French multinational electric utility Electricite de France, the main owner of Framotome, which helps operate the plant.

“Framatome is supporting resolution of a performance issue with the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant in Guangdong province, China,” Framatome said in a short statement on Monday.

“According to the data available, the plant is operating within the safety parameters,” it said. “Our team is working with relevant experts to assess the situation and propose solutions to address any potential issue.”

Radiation levels in Hong Kong, 135 kilometres from the Taishan plant, were normal on Monday, according to the Hong Kong Observatory.

CNN reported on Monday that Framotome had written to the US Department of Energy warning of an “imminent radiological threat” and accusing

Chinese authorities of raising acceptable limits for radiation outside the plant to avoid having to shut it down. CNN said US officials believed the current situation at the plant did not present a severe safety threat.

Electricite de France said in a statement on

Monday that it had been informed of the increase in concentration of “certain rare gases” in the primary circuit of reactor No. 1 at the Taishan plant.

The utility said it is providing its expertise and has requested that the joint venture company

that runs the plant hold a meeting of its board of directors so that management “presents all the data and makes the necessary decisions.”

Chinese authorities in Beijing and Guangdong did not immediately respond to attempts to seek comment on Monday, a public holiday.

The plant had issued a statement on Sunday saying “At present, continuous monitoring of environmental data shows that the environmental indicators of Taishan Nuclear Power Plant and its surroundings are normal.”

It did not refer to any problems, and said “All operating indicators of the two units have met the requirements of nuclear safety regulations and power plant technical specifications.”

The United Nation’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, told The Associated Press that it was aware of the media reports and was in contact with its counterpart in China.

“At this stage, the agency has no indication that a radiological incident occurred,” the Vienna-based IAEA said in a written response to questions.

The agency said it would share more information when it became available. — AP

‘Performance issue’ reported at nuclear facility

WARSAW, Poland — The endangered Sumatran Titan arum, a giant foul-smelling blossom also known as the corpse flower, went into a rare, short bloom at a botanical garden in Warsaw, drawing crowds who waited for hours to see it.

The extraordinary flower, which emits a dead-body odour to attract pollinating insects that feed on flesh, bloomed on Sunday. It was already withering early Monday. Those wishing to avoid the smell and crowds could watch it on live video from the Warsaw University Botanical Gardens.

Hundreds, if not thousands, lined up long into the night on Sunday and Monday morning at the conservatory just to be able to pass by the flower and take a picture.

Known also as the Amorphophallus titanum, the flowering plant has the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world, which can be up to 3 metres high. Its compound flower is composed of a hollow, tall spadix with small flowers and a spathe, with one big, furrowed petal that is green on the outside and deep burgundy red on the inside. It’s blooming is rare and unpredictable.

The plant only grows in the wild in the rainforests of Sumatra, but it is endangered there due to deforestation. Cultivation at botanical gardens, where they are a great visitor attraction, has helped its preservation. It’s first known blooming outside Sumatra was in 1889 at London’s Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew. — AP

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VIENNA — Delegations from Russia and the United States involved in nuclear negotiations with Iran held talks in Vienna on Monday, two days ahead of a summit meeting between US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The US is not directly involved in the Vienna negotiations but has regular contacts with participating diplomats.

Efforts to revive a 2015 nuclear containment deal for Iran are a rare topic of collaboration between the two global adversaries.

Mikhail Ulyanov, a senior diplomat who headed the Russian delegation at the meeting in Vienna, called the talks with US counterparts “fruitful.”

“Our dialogue in Vienna seems to be

proof that the two countries can maintain businesslike cooperation on issues of common interest, non-proliferation in this particular case,” Ulyanov wrote in a tweet.

The nuclear agreement was scuppered in 2018 when the Trump administration pulled the US out of the accord, arguing that it handed Iran too many concessions.

Diplomats from China, Germany, France, Russia, and Britain held joint talks with Iran on Saturday and multiple bilateral meetings afterward at a hotel in the centre of the Austrian capital.

Matthew Rojansky, director of the Wilson Centre’s Kennan Institute in Washington, said Russia was keen to curb some of Iran’s ambitions.

“Moscow still prefers to see Tehran

checked in its aspiration to develop a weapon, but is much less motivated when it comes to checking Iran’s regional ambitions and its broader global misbehaviour,” he told the AP.

“At the same time, Russia has a balancing act to perform in Syria, where Iran’s force of arms on the ground could become a problem for Russian ambitions.”

The 2015 agreement was designed to keep Iran’s nuclear programme peaceful, imposing strict controls on uranium enrichment levels as well as the technology and facilities used for the process. Iran stopped abiding by those limits after the US withdrawal but insists it has no plan to build nuclear weapons — a claim that the US and its western allies dispute. — AP

US, Russia discuss Iran’s uranium enrichment

SAFETY LIMITS: In this 2013 photo, then British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, left, chats with Taishan Nuclear Power Joint Venture Co. Ltd. General Manager Guo Liming in Taishan, China. The French joint operator of the plant said on Monday it is dealing with a “performance issue” AP File picture

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Suu Kyi’s prosecution poses yet another major setback for Myanmar, which had been making slow progress toward democracy when a February coup prevented elected lawmakers from her National League for Democracy party from taking office following last year’s landslide victory.

Human Rights Watch said that the allegations being heard in a special court in the capital, Naypyitaw, are “bogus and politically motivated” with the intention of nullifying the victory and preventing Suu Kyi from running for office again.

“This trial is clearly the opening salvo in an overall strategy to neuter Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy party as a force that can challenge military rule in the future,” said Phil Robertson, the organisation’s deputy Asia director.

UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq, responding to a question on Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ reaction to the trial, said the UN position is clear: “We want her and all of the senior members of her administration to be freed.”

“The secretary-general has called for and continues to call for a reversal of the February 1 coup and the restoration of the legitimate government of Myanmar, of whom Aung San Suu Kyi is a member,” Haq said.

The army seized power on February 1 before the new lawmakers could be seated, and arrested Suu Kyi, who held the post of special counsellor, President Win Myint and other members of her

government and ruling party. The Southeast Asian country went seemingly overnight from an emerging democracy to the international pariah it had been for decades while under military rule.

The army justified its coup by alleging the government failed to properly investigate accusations of voting irregularities. Since then it has said it has found evidence of fraud — an assertion contested by the independent Asian Network for Free Elections and many others. Junta officials have threatened to dissolve the National League for Democracy and any conviction for Suu Kyi could see her barred from politics.

The junta has claimed it will hold new elections within the next year or two, but the country’s military has a long history of promising elections and not following through. The military ruled Myanmar for 50 years after a coup in 1962, and kept Suu Kyi under house arrest for 15 years after a failed 1988 popular uprising.

The military’s latest takeover sparked nationwide protests that continue despite a violent crackdown that has killed hundreds of people. Although street demonstrations have shrunk in number and scale, the junta now faces a low-level armed insurrection by opponents in both rural and urban areas.

The trial against the 75-year-old Suu

Kyi is closed, but her lawyers said at the end of the day’s hearing that the prosecution began presenting its case.

Suu Kyi has been charged with illegally importing walkie-talkies for her bodyguards’ use, unlicensed use of the radios and spreading information that could cause public alarm or unrest, as well as for two counts of violating the Natural Disaster Management Law for allegedly breaking pandemic restrictions during the 2020 election campaign, her lawyers said on Sunday.

“All these charges should be dropped, resulting in her immediate and unconditional release,” said Human Rights Watch’s Robertson. “But sadly, with the restrictions on access to her lawyers, and the case being heard in front of a court that is wholly beholden to the military junta, there is little likelihood she will receive a fair trial.”

Government prosecutors will have until June 28 to finish their presentation, after which Suu Kyi’s defence team will have until July 26 to present its case, Khin Maung Zaw, the team’s senior member, said last week. Court sessions are due to be held on Monday and Tuesday each week.

Two other more serious charges against Suu Kyi are being handled separately: one for breaching the colonial-era Official Secrets Act, which carries a maximum 14-year prison term, and another for bribery, which has a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison and a fine.

Although Suu Kyi faced her first charge just days after the February coup, she was not allowed her first face-to-face meeting with her lawyers until May 24, when she made her first actual appearance in court for a pre-trial hearing. Since then, she had another brief meeting with them before seeing them in court on Monday. — AP

Trial of ousted leader beginsCritics call charges agains Suu Kyi bogus and politically motivated

FACING TRIAL: The trial of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has got under way, four months after a military coup removed the elected government from office. AP file picture

LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed on Monday that the next planned relaxation of coronavirus restrictions in England will be delayed by four weeks, until July 19, a decision he said will save thousands of lives as the government speeds up its vaccination drive.

In a press briefing, Johnson voiced his confidence that the new date for the lifting of restrictions on social contact will be the final one as the vaccination drive is accelerated to counter the delta variant that scientists reckon is between 40 percent and 80 percent more transmittable than the previous dominant strain in the UK.

“I think it is sensible to wait just a little longer,” he said. “Now is the time to ease off the accelerator, because by being cautious now we have the chance in the next four weeks to save many thousands of lives by vaccinating millions more people.”

He said that by July 19, two-thirds of the adult population will have been double-vaccinated, including everyone over the age of 50, and that everyone over the age of 18 will have been offered a jab, earlier than the previous target of the month’s end. The gap between the two doses for over 40s is also being reduced to eight weeks from 12 to provide the maximum protection against the variant sooner.

New analysis on Monday from Public Health England showed that two doses of the main vaccines in the UK’s roll-out are highly effective against hospitalisation from the delta variant, which was first identified in India. It said the Pfizer vaccine is 96 percent effective against hospitalisation after two doses while the AstraZeneca jab is 92 percent effective.

“It’s unmistakably clear the vaccines are working and the sheer scale of the vaccine roll-out has made our position incomparably better than in previous waves,” Johnson said.

Under the government’s plan for coming out of lockdown, all restrictions on social contact were set to be lifted next Monday. Many businesses, particularly those in hospitality and entertainment, voiced their disappointment about the delay to what had been dubbed by the British media as “Freedom Day.” Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been particularly upset at the prospect of a delay and has said he will reopen his theatres regardless, a move that would risk him being arrested.

A delay is a particularly bitter pill for nightclubs, as they have not been allowed to reopen since March 2020.

It will also likely impact how many

fans are allowed into the Wimbledon tennis tournament and the European Championship soccer matches at Wembley Stadium, which will host the tournament’s semi-finals and final. However, actual numbers may be higher at certain events as Johnson said the government will carry on with its test programme to allow more fans into stadiums.

The Confederation of British Industry said the delay is “regrettable” but “understandable” and urged the government to provide more support to those businesses affected.

“But we must acknowledge the pain felt by businesses in hospitality, leisure and live events,” said the CBI’s director-general Tony Danker. “At best they’re operating with reduced capacity hitting revenues, and at worst, some aren’t open at all.”

When Johnson first outlined the government’s four-stage plan for lifting the lockdown in England in February, he set June 21 as the earliest date by which restrictions on people gathering would be lifted. However, he stressed at the time that the timetable was not carved in stone and that all the steps would be driven by “data not dates” and would seek to be “irreversible.”

Though daily infections have increased threefold over the past few weeks they are still way down from the nearly 70,000 daily cases recorded in January. On Monday, the British government reported 7742 new confirmed cases, one of the highest daily numbers since the end of February. The delta variant accounts for around 90 percent of all new infections. The number of people being hospitalised with the virus has edged up over recent days. — AP

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FREEDOM DAY DELAYED: Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed that the next planned relaxation of Covid restrictions in UK will be delayed by four weeks until July 19 as a result of the spread of the delta variant. AP picture

SANAA, Yemen — UN and Yemeni officials said on Monday a boat capsized off the coast of war-torn Yemen a day earlier and around 200 migrants, mostly from the Horn of Africa, were missing.

The shipwreck on Sunday was the latest sea disaster involving African migrants seeking a better life in oil-rich Gulf countries. The boat left the East African country of Djibouti over the weekend and sank off Yemen’s Ras al-Ara area in southern Lahj province, according to Abd Rabou Mehwali, former head of the Ras al-Ara municipality and current deputy education minister of the internationally recognised government.

A UN migration official said the boat was carrying some 200 people, mostly Africans, and a handful of Yemenis. It wasn’t immediately clear if there were fatalities or if any migrants were rescued. But the official said those on board were missing.

Thousands of people each year seek to make the voyage from Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somalia to Yemen and on to richer Gulf countries as they flee poverty and insecurity in search of work.

The Covid pandemic and resulting closed borders have slowed but not stopped the flow of migrants.

The International Organisation for Migration said about 138,000 people made the journey in 2019 but just 37,500 did in 2020. — AP

Migrant boat capsizes off Yemen, 200 feared missing

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Bomb kills four soldiers QUETTA, Pakistan — A powerful bomb targeting

government soldiers exploded at a coal mine in southwest Pakistan, killing four soldiers, the military said on Monday.

The attack happened at Marget Mines, about 75 kilometres east of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, a statement released by the military said. It said the slain soldiers were guarding the coal mine and a search operation was still underway to track and arrest those who orchestrated the attack.

No one claimed responsibility but militants and separatists have previously attacked coal miners and security workers in the region and elsewhere. Pakistan has deployed troops to ensure the protection of coal mines and oil workers in the region. — AP

Suspect charged with terrorismLONDON, Ontario — Canada’s attorney general

has approved terror charges against a man accused of killing four members of a Muslim family with his vehicle in London, Ontario.

London police have said that Nathaniel Veltman, 20, intentionally targeted the family because of their faith, running them over in a “premeditated” attack. Veltman also faces four first-degree murder charges and one attempted murder charge.

Three generations of the Afzaal family were killed, leaving just one survivor. — BBC

Head of largest family diesIndia — A 76-year-old man believed to be the

head of the world’s largest family has died in India’s Mizoram state. Ziona Chana, the head of a religious sect that practised polygamy, died on Sunday, leaving behind 38 wives, 89 children and 36 grandchildren.

The news was confirmed by Mizoram’s chief minister, Zoramthanga, who offered his condolences on Twitter “with a heavy heart”.

Chana reportedly suffered from diabetes and hypertension. Doctors told PTI news agency that Chana’s condition deteriorated at home in his village, Baktawng Tlangnuam. He was admitted to hospital on Sunday evening, where he was declared dead on arrival.

It’s hard to say if Chana was indeed the head of the world’s largest family since there are others who claim the title.

It’s also hard to estimate the exact size of Chana’s family.

At least one report claims he had 39 wives, 94 children, 33 grandchildren and one great-grandchild, which adds up to 181 people. — BBC

JERUSALEM — Israel’s new government on Monday approved a contentious parade by Israeli nationalists through Palestinian areas around Jerusalem’s Old City, setting the stage for possible renewed confrontations just weeks after an 11-day war with Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. Hamas called on Palestinians to “resist” the march.

The parade, scheduled for today, creates an early test for the fledgling government led by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett — a patchwork of parties that includes hard-line nationalists as well as the first Arab party to sit in a governing coalition.

Every year, Israeli ultranationalists hold the boisterous march, waving blue-and-white flags and chanting slogans as they march through the Old City’s Damascus Gate and into the heart of the Muslim Quarter to celebrate Israel’s capture of east Jerusalem in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians consider the march a provocation.

The parade was originally scheduled for May 10. At the time, tensions were already high following weeks of clashes between Israeli police and Palestinian demonstrators around the Al-Aqsa Mosque, one of Islam’s holiest sites, as well as attempts by Jewish settlers to evict dozens of Palestinians from their homes in a nearby neighbourhood.

As thousands of Jewish activists began the procession, police ordered a change in the route to avoid the Damascus Gate.

Hamas militants in Gaza then fired a barrage of rockets toward Jerusalem, igniting the war that took over 250 Palestinian lives and killed 13 people in Israel.

UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said UN officials have made clear “the need for all sides to refrain from unilateral steps and provocations, for them to exercise restraint and allow for the necessary work to be done to solidify the current ceasefire.”

Omer Bar-Lev, the new Cabinet minister who oversees police, said he met with police, military and top security officials to review the plan.

“I got the impression that the police are well-prepared and a great effort is being made to preserve the delicate fabric of life and public security,” Bar-Lev said.

His statement gave no details on the parade route. But Israeli media said the crowd would walk past the Damascus Gate but not enter the Muslim Quarter.

A police official, speaking on condition of anonymity said about 2000 police would be deployed.

Israel annexed east Jerusalem after the 1967 war and considers the area, home to the city’s most sensitive religious sites, to be part of its capital. The competing claims to the holy city by Palestinians and Israelis lie at the heart of the conflict and have sparked many rounds of violence.

Hamas issued a statement calling on Palestinians to show “valiant resistance”

to the march. It urged people to gather in the streets of the Old City and at the Al-Aqsa Mosque to “rise up in the face of the occupier and resist it by all means to stop its crimes and arrogance.”

Israeli Channel 13 TV said the military was on heightened alert in the occupied

West Bank and along the Gaza front to prepare for possible violence.

The military said it was “conducting ongoing situational assessments and is prepared for a variety of developments and scenarios.” It said, however, there were no reinforcements of troops. — AP

Israel approves flag march

GEARING UP FOR JERUSALEM MARCH: In this file photo, Israelis wave national flags during a Jerusalem Day parade, in Jerusalem. Israel’s new government on Monday approved a contentious parade by Israeli nationalists through Palestinian areas around Jerusalem’s Old City. AP picture

BUDAPEST — Protesters and human rights officials urged lawmakers in Hungary on Monday to reject legislation banning any content portraying or promoting homosexuality or sex reassignment to anyone under 18.

Thousands of LGBT activists and others demonstrated in front of the Parliament in Budapest in the evening, chanting “we are here!” as they urged lawmakers to abandon plans for the bills.

“We have a lot to do before tomorrow’s vote: We have to tell, we have to write to every member of Parliament, why this bill is anti-child, anti-family and anti-human,” David Vig, director of Hungary’s branch of Amnesty International, told those gathered.

Fidesz, Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s conservative ruling party, presented the legislation last week and plans to vote on the bill on Tuesday. They include a measure aimed at fighting paedophilia along with other amendments prohibiting transmitting information

about LGBT people or same-sex relationships to youth.

Fidesz describes the legislation as an effort to protect children from paedophilia.

But Lydia Gall, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch, said equating sexual and gender diversity with paedophilia hurt the dignity of LGBT people and risked putting them in danger.

Gall called the legislation “a cynical, distasteful and deliberate attempt by the Orban government to trample the rights of LGBT people and essentially make them invisible in Hungarian society.”

Dunja Mijatovic, the commissioner for human rights at the Council of Europe, the continent’s leading human rights body, asked Hungarian lawmakers to reject the legislation.

“I urge you to remain vigilant against such initiatives to push through measures that limit human rights or stigmatise . . . some members of society,” Mijatovic said in a statement on Monday.

The Hungarian amendments would outlaw

any depiction or discussion of different gender identity and sexual orientation in public, including in schools and the media.

Some human rights groups have compared the planned ban to a discriminatory 2013 Russian law banning so-called gay “propaganda,” widely viewed as a tool of discrimination.

Mijatovic said such legislation reinforces prejudice against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. She also argued that international human rights groups have established that young people have a right to comprehensive sex education, which is not possible if there is a ban on any discussion of LGBT issues.

“The proposed legislative amendments run counter to international and European human rights standards. It is misleading and false to claim that they are being introduced to protect children,” she said.

The legislation is expected to be approved, given that Fidesz has a majority. — AP

Thousands protest anti-LGBT bills in Hungary

VILNIUS — Flowers were laid on rusty railway tracks on Monday as Lithuania marked the start of a mass deportation 80 years ago by the Soviet Union that was occupying the Baltic nation.

People who were considered opposed to Moscow or deemed counter-revolutionary elements were sent to Siberia from Lithuania and few returned. Others who owned land or houses were evicted and sent there too.

Some 280,000 people were eventually deported to the Siberian Gulags, a year after Soviet troops had occupied Lithuania. Many of those sent away never returned from the long journey in the cattle wagons.

“Two evil forces — Nazi Germany and the Soviet Communist regime — had entered a secret agreement to divide Europe,” President Gitanas Nauseda said during a solemn ceremony in Vilnius, on a day considered one of the darkest pages in the Baltic nation’s recent history. These “regimes caused unspeakable pain and suffering.”

One of those attending the ceremony on Monday was deported and spent almost 11 years in Siberia. Aurelija Staponkute and her family were deported only because they had a small farm that was seized.

“We do not know what the future

might bring. Whatever happens, we must protect our freedom. After all, we fought for it so hard,” the 83-year-old said.

Only one-third of those deported ever returned, according to historians. — AP

Soviet mass deportation’s 80th anniversary observed

LITHUANIA DEPORTATIONS ANNIVERSARY: A man lays flowers on rusty railway tracks near old wagons at the Naujoji Vilnia railway station in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Monday as Lithuania marked the mass deportation 80 years ago by the Soviet Union that was occupying the Baltic nation. AP picture

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SUNDAY SOCCER: Gisborne Thistle goalkeeper Mitchell Stewart-Hill punches the ball over the bar in a Central Federation League clash with Havelock North Wanderers at Childers Road Reserve on Sunday. Above, midfielder Cullen Spawforth speeds past a Wanderers player. The visitors showed why they are top of the table with a 4-1 victory, although Thistle were in it for 80 of the 90 minutes, with Stewart-Hill making several superb saves.

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GOALMOUTH ACTION: Waituhi’s Piri Orotaunga about to clear the ball in front of goalkeeper David Moa as Gisborne Boys’ High player Harry Allan reaches out with his stick and Zane Tuhou (middle) and William Matthews untangle sticks. Right, Waituhi’s George Whitehead has to contend with a human backpack in the form of Oliver Cranefield. The students won the Poverty Bay men’s club hockey game 4-2 on the turf at Harry Barker Reserve to further close up an already congested points table.

TRYLINE IN SIGHT: OBM flanker Keanu Tamatea only has eyes for the tryline as he goes low towards the YMP defence in a Poverty Bay premier club rugby game at Rugby Park. Tamatea was stopped short of the line but teammate Juston Allen scored from the ensuing scrum. Right, YMP prop Nehe Papuni prepares for impact. YMP won 33-24 while Ngatapa beat High School Old Boys 48-19. YMP’s win lifted them to top of the table, three points ahead of Waikohu who have a game in hand.

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3 40269 Ocean Cruizer (2) 58.5 50 J Riddell 4 000s Millennium Dawn (1) 58.5 47 L Satherley 5 0 Seven Pairs (4) 58.5 45 A Goindasamy (a1) 6 09 Sir Allykhazann (3) 58.5 45 C Grylls 7 0 Smug (8) 58.5 45 D Danis 8 234s9 Optimum Sweet (10) 56.5 53 T Newman (a2) 9 s4468 Lambo (6) 56.5 48 D Johnson 10 50867 Golden Eagle (9) 56.5 45 T Thornton 11 9s9 Kiki (5) 56.5 45

3 NZB Insurance Pearl Series 11.57 $10,000, maiden f&m, 1550m

1 s2330 Miss Interpret (12) 57.5 53 M McNab 2 209s4 Zendora (11) 57.5 53 A Goindasamy (a1) 3 s0344 Cannsea Clearly (5) 57.5 51 L Allpress 4 57s35 Dark Satin (1) 57.5 51 R Elliot 5 3s026 Penny Jane (4) 57.5 51 H Schofer (a1) 6 9s83 Soprano Supreme (18) 57.5 51 D Johnson 7 s0409 La Diva (2) 57.5 48 S Spratt 8 055 Carnival Lady (15) 57.5 47 V Colgan 9 8558 Screen Belle (16) 57.5 47 10 898s0 Swiss Idol (6) 57.5 47 T Yanagida (a1) 11 70657 Endean Bay (14) 57.5 46 (a3) 12 76 Kelly Keeper (7) 57.5 46 T Newman (a2)EMERGENCIES: 13 0 Show N’ Tease (8) 57.5 45 14 87 Glorified (9) 57.5 45 C Grylls 15 700 Nacene (17) 57.5 45 T Thornton 16 460s0 Bouffant (13) 57.5 45 17 03965 Shibuya Kosaten (3) 57.5 51 18 78s04 Bancomat D’oro (10) 57.5 50

4 NZB Insurance Pearl Series 12.32 $10,000, rating 65 benchmark fillies and mares*, 1550m

1 64764 Rhapsody In Blue (7) 59.5 64 D Johnson 2 155s0 Cathay Nova (6) 59 63 R Elliot

3 09s51 Champagne Princess (2) 59 63 A Calder 4 s5648 Prosperous (4) 59 63 C Grylls 5 0s403 Threadtheneedle (14) 59 63 M McNab 6 0s221 Agey Babe (1) 58.5 62 M Hashizume (a2) 7 98541 Alegre (3) 58.5 62 L Satherley 8 s6429 Graciano (13) 58.5 62 T Yanagida (a1) 9 27s57 Eridani (8) 58 61 J Riddell 10 51650 Hibernia Sea (10) 58 61 T Newman (a2) 11 6s457 React (5) 58 61 (a3) 12 100s8 Greenslade (11) 57 59 H Schofer (a1)EMERGENCIES: 13 3090s Single Moment (12) 55 55 14 s0379 She Speeds (9) 56 57 S Spratt

15 — Sacred Delight SCRATCHED

5 Julius - Bell Racing Sprint 1.07 $10,000, maiden, 970m

1 272s9 Snip (11) 58.5 53 (a3) 2 990s Implicit (2) 58.5 47 T Newman (a2) 3 Pow Wow (8) 58.5 47 S Spratt 4 0s0s0 Hasstobemagic (9) 56.5 54 A Calder 5 32s04 Spydapus (13) 56.5 54 L Allpress 6 s258s Perfectionist (7) 56.5 53 7 84 Fasong (12) 56.5 50 E Nicholas (a4) 8 56s00 Alagant Angel (1) 56.5 46 M Hashizume (a2) 9 0s6 Roman Beauty (10) 56.5 46 L Satherley 10 7s Samira (4) 56.5 46 M McNab 11 8s687 Addicted To You (5) 56.5 45 B Rogerson (a4) 12 Bon Bay Anook (3) 56.5 45 M K Hudson EMERGENCY: 13 Ipso Facto (6) 56.5 47

6 NZB Insurance $10, Bonus Ht 1 1.42 $10,000, maiden 3yo, 970m

1 — Gee String SCRATCHED

2 One Power (4) 57.5 47 C Grylls 3 98s Odinpower (3) 57.5 46 (a3) 4 0s0s0 Hasstobemagic (9) 55.5 54 A Calder 5 Ipso Facto (8) 55.5 47 D Johnson

6 Miss Cartier (6) 55.5 47 M McNab 7 5 No Secret (7) 55.5 47 8 0s8 Auntie Condor (1) 55.5 45 M Hashizume (a2) 9 7 Bella Volaire (5) 55.5 45 L Satherley 10 Charlatan (10) 55.5 45 L Allpress 11 9 She’s Dashing (12) 55.5 45 12 687s0 Veloce Sorella (11) 55.5 45 T Newman (a2)EMERGENCY: 13 s258s Perfectionist (2) 55.5 53

7 Travelling Light 2.17 $10,000, rating 65 benchmark*, 970m

1 s026s Master Park (10) 60 65 D Johnson 2 08s64 Pluton (4) 60 65 B Rogerson (a4) 3 s4309 Bucky (7) 59.5 64 J Riddell 4 s000s Ooga Chaka (1) 59.5 64 M McNab 5 6s032 Darci Palmer (6) 59 63 S Spratt 6 14 Johny Johny (5) 59 63 L Satherley 7 23251 Nozi Cyclone (11) 59 63 C Grylls 8 00791 Valetti (3) 58.5 62 T Thornton 9 4s9s8 Elusive Empire (9) 57 59 H Schofer (a1) 10 84617 Taupo Missy (8) 56 61 A Goindasamy (a1) 11 0s505 Porshabelle (2) 54 55 T Newman (a2)

8 Jennifer Eccles 2.54 $10,000, maiden, 2000m

1 59s3P Uluaki (11) 58.5 53 2 65953 Extersea (15) 58.5 51 L Satherley 3 s0s63 Led Zed (12) 58.5 51 T Newman (a2) 4 05040 Dragon Realm (7) 58.5 49 C Barnes 5 77965 Amabo (3) 58.5 47 A Calder 6 686 Current Surge (16) 58.5 46 J Riddell 7 94096 Youknowhatimean (2) 58.5 45 E McCall (a3) 8 00562 Heart Of A Lion (1) 56.5 52 T Yanagida (a1) 9 40735 Annalone (8) 56.5 51 M McNab 10 70664 Pearl Hart (13) 56.5 50 S Spratt

11 6s409 Spirit Of Kaha (5) 56.5 48 C Grylls

12 670s6 La Favorita (9) 56.5 45

A Goindasamy (a1)

EMERGENCIES:

13 00670 Carlito (10) 58.5 45

14 6807s Nonaame (14) 56.5 45 L Allpress

15 60s70 Alamode (4) 58.5 45 D Johnson

16 99090 Burcha (6) 58.5 45

9 Dave Snowden’s Legacy 3.29 $10,000, rating 65 benchmark*, 2000m

1 36s66 Into The Deep (3) 59.5 64

2 00s92 Our Craftsman (8) 58.5 62

M Hashizume (a2)

3 618s9 Border Leicester (7) 58 61

4 30360 Master Painton (6) 58 61 J Riddell

5 321s0 Suffice To Say (11) 58 61

B Rogerson (a4)

6 3009s Koolascuz (4) 56.5 58 J M Fillmore

7 800s0 Solid Contact (5) 56 57 H Schofer (a1)

8 10s70 Mah Girl (9) 54.5 58 C Barnes

9 60s09 Ace Of Spades (2) 54 57 A Calder

10 60s76 Sacred Delight (10) 54 56 (a3)

11 s7596 Savappiel (1) 54 56 S Spratt

10 Go Racing 4.04 $10,000, rating 65 benchmark*, 2000m

1 56s08 Our Beeskees (3) 60 65

M Hashizume (a2)

2 8s301 Aongatete Express (8) 59 63

3 12004 Pierro Rosso (10) 58.5 62 J Riddell

4 0s502 La Casa (12) 58 61 R Elliot

5 27382 Capellani (7) 57 59 B Rogerson (a4)

6 87s05 Touch The Clouds (9) 56.5 58

7 40177 Savezar (2) 56 61 V Colgan

8 73006 Willy Away (5) 56 57 (a3)

9 0s960 Prestigious Lad (4) 55 55 D Danis

10 0070s Red John (1) 55 55 A Calder

11 47435 Savastep (11) 54.5 58 T Newman (a2)

12 s0379 She Speeds (6) 54 57 S Spratt

SelectionsRace 1: ALPHA CHARLIE, RUA ROCKS, LINCOLN THUNDER

Race 2: OCEAN CRUIZER, LAMBO, WHILE YOU’RE THERE

Race 3: ZENDORA, DARK SATIN, PENNY JANE

Race 4: ALEGRE, CHAMPAGNE PRINCESS,

RHAPSODY IN BLUE

Race 5: POW WOW, PERFECTIONIST, SNIP

Race 6: MISS CARTIER, PERFECTIONIST, ONE POWER

Race 7: DARCI PALMER, NOZI CYCLONE, MASTER PARK

Race 8: HEART OF A LION, LA FAVORITA, PEARL HART

Race 9: INTO THE DEEP, MASTER PAINTON,

SACRED DELIGHT

Race 10: LA CASA, AONGATETE EXPRESS, CAPELLANI

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

1 Clanbrooke Racing 2.25 $50,000, 3yo Benchmark 78, 2400m

1 s4451 Mr Joobs wn (4) 58 97 B Allen 2 21554 Marcolt b (2) 56.5 100 Ms M Payne 3 31999 Eco Warrior wn (7) 56 98 D Lane 4 92886 Token Spirit (5) 55.5 100 D Moor 5 31807 Shilajit w (3) 54 88 W Price (a1.5) 6 60227 Blazing Lace (1) 54 88 Ms A Kelly (a3) 7 808 Maradona (6) 54 82 D Thornton

2 Tile Importer Handicap 3.00 $50,000, 2yo Fillies, 1300m

1 1s Douceur w (6) 59 97 Ms M Payne 2 1 Messignadi (2) 59 94 H Coffey 3 27s3 Crazy Ladies b (9) 58.5 95 C Newitt

4 18 Gotta Pulse w (8) 58.5 92 T Stockdale (a) 5 6 Avangard (5) 58 96 J Mott 6 7 Kaveri (1) 58 96 D Lane 7 4 Whatafox (3) 58 100 Ms J Kah 8 60 Celtic Glory (4) 56.5 95 W Price (a) 9 0529 Vancity (7) 56.5 92 D Moor

3 Ladbrokes Handicap 3.35 $50,000, Class 1, 1300m

1 s236s Highland Jakk (7) 60 84 J Hill 2 46202 Crestani w (5) 59 100 P Moloney 3 169s4 Amfissa n (2) 58 96 D Thornton 4 44s1 Ocean’s Jen d (1) 57.5 97 D Moor 5 5s10 Always In Moment n (9) 57 89 D Lane 6 s2s41 Avenue Of Pleasure wn (12) 57 88 M Dee 7 17s8 Scientific (11) 57 88 D Oliver 8 136s Worsfold b (8) 57 87 Ms J Kah 9 2035s Hochadel wb (6) 56.5 84 Ms A Bryan (a3) 10 64215 Our Little Ripper wn (4) 56.5 89 D Stackhouse 11 3221s Polina (10) 56.5 87 M Cartwright (a3) 12 537s5 La Croft (3) 56 90 B Prebble

4 Ladbrokes Same Race Multi 4.10 $50,000, 3yo Fillies Benchmark 70, 1600m

1 s1041 Star Of Eden dw (9) 60.5 90 L German (a2) 2 s6267 Succeed Indeed d (4) 59.5 92 L King (a1.5) 3 28312 Montia dwn (7) 58.5 93 M Cartwright (a3) 4 7s135 Spooning wbn (1) 58 100 Ms J Kah 5 8075s Cafe Rizu w (3) 57.5 91 C Newitt

6 163 Miss Tainui (6) 56.5 93 W Price (a1.5) 7 421 Merle The Pearl n (5) 56 89 L Currie 8 66s16 Seduce w (8) 56 96 D Lane 9 91535 Haveyouzeena d (2) 55.5 94 D Bates 10 33964 Promada (10) 55.5 89 M Dee 11 4s210 Rosenstrasse n (12) 55.5 87 L Neindorf (a2) 12 74341 Cristofina w (11) 55 90 Ms A Kelly (a3)

5 Ladbrokes Switch 4.45 $50,000, 4yo & up Mares Benchmark 64, 1600m

1 6s576 Leale dw (3) 61.5 94 Ms A Kelly (a3) 2 117s7 Desert Realm w (14) 61 90 T Stockdale (a2) 3 12s25 Perennial wn (12) 61 96 W Price (a1.5) 4 1s244 Lindhout (9) 60 95 M Dee 5 31253 Livvy Lass dwn (13) 60 93 D Lane 6 35127 Mostly Sunny dwn (5) 59.5 100 Ms M Lloyd (a3) 7 93s06 Opoho Dreaming w (6) 59 94 L Currie 8 74215 Pindi Pride dw (10) 59 94 L Neindorf (a2) 9 5s662 Stratessa wn (2) 59 93 B Allen 10 51056 Elvaric dw (8) 58.5 93 P Moloney 11 2s245 Make Mine Hennessy dn (4) 58.5 99 L King (a1.5) 12 4s207 She’s A Karaka w (11) 58.5 91 D Yendall 13 483s4 Cicero Field dw (16) 57.5 90 D Oliver 14 31s34 Ready To Indulge w (1) 57.5 90 M Cartwright (a3) 15 82818 Grazie Mille dw (7) 56.5 93 C Newitt 16 s8920 Annalova dw (15) 54.5 87 Ms A Bryan (a3)

6 Ladbroke It 5.20 $50,000, 3yo & up Benchmark 78, 2100m

1 s9059 Tavirun w (11) 62 94 T Stockdale (a2) 2 s6426 Converging cdw (5) 58 100 D Lane 3 27467 Duke Of Plumpton w (8) 58 92 Ms T Hope (a2) 4 s8937 Tolemac cw (7) 57.5 95 W Price (a1.5) 5 61621 Jayrod Too n (4) 57 100 Ms M Lloyd (a3) 6 99s00 Roland Garros w (10) 56.5 90 M Cartwright (a3) 7 92626 Crimson Ace wn (14) 56 96 B Prebble 8 331s8 Euroman w (2) 55.5 91 L King (a1.5) 9 1428s Pissaro dn (3) 55.5 90 Ms A Kelly (a3) 10 32226 Dirty Deeds w (15) 55 96 Ms J Kah 11 21723 Smokin’ Romans bn (6) 55 97 D Yendall 12 060s4 Lofty Heights tw (1) 54 99 Ms M Lloyd (a3) 13 44013 Epsom Days w (9) 54 88 Ms A Bryan (a3) 14 20s35 Arcadia King (12) 54 88 Ms T Bull (a3) 15 54894 Heartland Raider dw (13) 54 83 C Newitt

7 Ladbrokes Easy Form 5.55 $50,000, Benchmark 70, 1400m

1 28s00 Kalashani Lad tcdwn (8) 63 88 L German (a2) 2 17s50 Redefine dwn (16) 62 91 Ms A Kelly (a3) 3 s6553 Final Man twn (7) 61 93 D Stackhouse 4 126s2 Orleans Rock dwb (12) 60.5 92 B Melham 5 14s21 Scantoon dwn (14) 60.5 94 M Dee 6 s2161 Love Broker dwn (9) 59.5 97 D Thornton 7 0s104 Mean Mister w (6) 59.5 92 Ms T Hope (a2)

8 9s711 Raise ‘Em Up tdw (5) 59.5 100 Ms A Bryan (a3) 9 6s30s Kraquante dw (18) 59 89 D Bates 10 71880 Larrikin dwn (4) 59 90 W Price (a1.5) 11 0s417 Peidra tw (10) 58.5 89 J Mott 12 s553s Heaven’s Gift dw (13) 58 90 L Currie 13 625s4 Influential Jack w (15) 58 93 D Lane 14 22521 Knock Knock dw (3) 58 91 L Neindorf (a2) 15 226s3 Whittington Stone dwn (11) 58 92 J Noonan 16 53s49 Shezawitness w (1) 56 92 M Cartwright (a3)EMERGENCIES: 17 150s0 Unfair Dismissal dw (17) 58 85 C Rawiller (a3) 18 32444 Onslaught dwn (2) 58 85 T Stockdale (a2)

8 Ladbrokes Bet Ticker 6.30 $50,000, Benchmark 70, 1200m

1 9030s National Choice dw (8) 61 100 M Cartwright (a3) 2 12299 Cielo D’oro dwn (11) 60.5 93 T Stockdale (a2) 3 53s10 Gennady tdw (12) 60.5 87 M Dee 4 666s6 Minyinga tw (4) 60 88 Ms M Lloyd (a3) 5 2678s Paperboy dwn (5) 60 91 B Higgins 6 4129s Kuzco Lad dw (7) 59.5 87 D Oliver 7 16903 Rolling Moss cdwn (1) 59.5 90 8 67575 Wilde Gem dwn (9) 59 91 C Newitt 9 0s41s Ellis Park t (10) 58 88 Ms J Kah 10 s3375 Cliffs Of Belaura w (3) 57.5 94 J Mott 11 s1423 Teramia dwb (2) 56.5 97 D Stackhouse 12 8s987 Llessur (6) 56 89 D Lane 13 72071 Villianaire dw (13) 56 86 W Price (a1.5)

SelectionsRace 1: MARCOLT, MR JOOBS, TOKEN SPIRIT

Race 2: DOUCEUR, WHATAFOX, CRAZY LADIES

Race 3: WORSFOLD, ALWAYS IN MOMENT,

AVENUE OF PLEASURE

Race 4: SPOONING, ROSENSTRASSE, MERLE THE PEARL

Race 5: LINDHOUT, STRATESSA, CICERO FIELD

Race 6: DIRTY DEEDS, SMOKIN’ ROMANS, JAYROD TOO

Race 7: LOVE BROKER, SCANTOON, ORLEANS ROCK

Race 8: GENNADY, WILDE GEM, NATIONAL CHOICE

Wanganui greys at Hatrick Wednesday Jetbet 3 TAB D. 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10, 11-12 T. 1-2-3, 4-5-6, 7-8-9, 10-11-12 Q. 2-3-4-5, 9-10-11-12 PL6 7-12

1 Welcome To Hatrick 12.06 $1425, C0, 305m

1 78563 Kinetic Angel nwtd Kettlewell & Phillips 2 24 Dynamic Empire nwtd J & D Bell 3 55284 Pachinko nwtd Linda Martin 4 2 Big Time Carnage nwtd Lisa Cole 5 Big Time Dandy nwtd Lisa Cole 6 48732 Hardcore Pig nwtd Agent & Williams 7 43 Feel The Madness nwtd Sue Gommans 8 23323 Bluey nwtd John McArthurEMERGENCIES: 9 7376 Feel The Charm nwtd Sue Gommans 10 774 Check Me Out nwtd Sue Gommans

2 Laser Plumbing 12.23 $3450, C0, 520m

1 27427 Big Time Aubrey nwtd Lisa Cole 2 22352 Big Time Clover nwtd Lisa Cole

3 3 Big Time Juicy nwtd Lisa Cole 4 Big Time Reward nwtd Lisa Cole 5 53737 Big Time Versace nwtd Lisa Cole 6 Big Time Ripper nwtd Lisa Cole 7 5 Mr Farenheit nwtd Carol Morris 8 Highview Anna nwtd G & S FredricksonEMERGENCIES: 9 751 Thrilling Tessa nwtd Sean Codlin 10 57854 Goldstar Harlowe nwtd Susie Kite

3 Lance Green Accountant 12.41 $1510, C1, 305m

1 46453 Big Time Melody 17.93 Brian Marsh 2 68852 Alamein Graeme 17.96 Kettlewell & Phillips 3 33627 Ahuroa Whizz 18.46 Robert Murray 4 16765 Milo Tonight 17.80 Lana Pearce 5 63668 Mitcham Ocean nwtd John McInerney 6 37454 Allegro Berkley 17.69 Lisa Cole 7 8118 Big Time Paisley 17.77 Lisa Cole 8 83677 Homebush Surgeon nwtd Sue GommansEMERGENCIES: 9 14667 Bound Up nwtd John McInerney 10 66378 Three Of Hearts 18.36 Bill Hodgson

4 Kernow Construction 12.58 $1510, C1, 305m

1 14778 Big Time Blitz 17.97 Lisa Cole 2 66836 Lucy Lingers 18.01 John McInerney 3 38436 Al’s Loaded 18.26 Lana Pearce 4 15354 Al’s Witch 18.09 Lana Pearce 5 65486 Diller 18.19 John McInerney 6 85475 Justin Lincoln 17.87 G Thompson 7 44663 Ariana Sunset 18.31 Robert Murray 8 s7811 Kinetic Bow 18.14 Kettlewell & PhillipsEMERGENCIES: 9 88468 Allegro Lincoln 17.92 Agent & Williams 10 57854 Paradox Prince 17.95 Bill Hodgson

5 racingtips.co.nz 1.16 $2565, C1, 520m

1 57644 Big Time Hautu 30.28 Lisa Cole 2 57528 Opawa Mason nwtd Marcie Flipp 3 87436 Allegro Ruby nwtd Lisa Cole 4 33623 Big Time Rita 30.68 Lisa Cole 5 65166 Big Time Dory 30.01 Lisa Cole 6 36s28 Tuff Tiger nwtd Bernie Mitchell 7 7s448 Opawa June 30.49 Sean Codlin 8 23165 Waiting Game 30.85 Wendy KiteEMERGENCIES: 9 86465 Master Brady nwtd Sean Codlin 10 48587 Big Time Bert 30.93 Lisa Cole

6 Accell Canine Therapy 1.33 $1745, C2, 305m

1 11688 Allegro Rylee 17.81 Lisa Cole 2 77461 Adobe Girl 17.81 Sue Gommans 3 22131 Born Trixie nwtd Marcie Flipp 4 16561 Bigtime Stella 17.42 Agent & Williams 5 16142 Elle 17.75 John McArthur 6 68731 Homebush Jozie 17.92 John McInerney 7 4F115 Big Time Albie 17.82 Lisa Cole 8 33467 Chic In Time 17.78 Glen HodgsonEMERGENCIES: 9 57674 Yesenia 17.64 Deb Edlin 10 27s43 Ester 18.07 Marcie Flipp

7 Palamountains Nutrition 1.50 $2565, C1, 520m

1 12217 Thrilling Gem nwtd Sean Codlin 2 17321 Big Time Tasty 30.46 Lisa Cole 3 37343 Adobe Turtle 31.16 Sue Gommans 4 13654 Bad Bro Bad nwtd Sean Codlin 5 72657 Big Time Scooter nwtd Lisa Cole 6 68374 Wifi Inga 30.64 G & S Fredrickson 7 11 Big Time Panda 30.07 Lisa Cole

8 52332 Big Time Dior nwtd Lisa ColeEMERGENCIES: 9 86465 Master Brady nwtd Sean Codlin 10 48587 Big Time Bert 30.93 Lisa Cole

8 Laser Plumbing 2.06 $1745, C2, 305m

1 62217 Go Great 18.00 Marcie Flipp 2 11322 Big Time Quinn 17.73 Lisa Cole 3 17748 Homebush Mandy 17.66 Sue Gommans 4 56152 Hobson 17.85 John McArthur 5 36175 Bailey And Cream 17.84 J & D Bell 6 42348 Railing Raccoon nwtd Sean Codlin 7 35163 Johny Mowhawk 17.91 David Denbee 8 55336 Big Time Juda 17.69 Susie KiteEMERGENCIES: 9 37865 Checkpoint 17.82 Marcie Flipp 10 78481 Hardcore Kylie 17.82 Agent & Williams

9 Accell Canine Therapy H1 2.26 $1510, C1, heat, 305m

1 74152 Hardcore Bart 18.36 Agent & Williams 2 55642 Homebush Cool nwtd John McInerney 3 445s1 Big Time Tasha 17.71 Lisa Cole 4 38653 Big Time Ricky 18.10 Agent & Williams 5 68643 Opawa Lyndsay nwtd Marcie Flipp 6 58445 Father Leo nwtd John McInerney 7 66734 Opawa Cheap nwtd Marcie Flipp 8 53765 Jack Marjen 18.17 Marcie FlippEMERGENCIES: 9 68852 Alamein Graeme 17.96 Kettlewell & Phillips 10 66378 Three Of Hearts 18.36 Bill Hodgson

10 Lance Green Accountant Ht 2.43 $1510, C1, heat, 305m

1 64273 Nutty Nuts nwtd Marcie Flipp 2 76536 Opawa Marcie 18.07 Marcie Flipp 3 46743 Shamrock Green 17.78 Carol Morris

4 63731 Big Time Blaze 17.68 Lisa Cole

5 88824 Allegro Lexxi 17.63 Agent & Williams

6 54624 Homebush Sugar nwtd John McInerney

7 66516 Small Paige 17.96 Agent & Williams

8 66316 Adobe Brooke 18.20 Sue Gommans

EMERGENCIES:

9 66836 Lucy Lingers 18.01 John McInerney

10 57854 Paradox Prince 17.95 Bill Hodgson

11 Laser Plumbing Heat 3.03 $1510, C1, heat, 305m

1 73267 Big Time Blair 18.02 Lisa Cole

2 88247 Slippery Suzie nwtd Sue Gommans

3 34745 Wifi Robyn 17.78 G & S Fredrickson

4 77635 Opawa Twirl nwtd Marcie Flipp

5 47343 Homebush Fury nwtd John McInerney

6 34311 Tiger Churn 17.67 Glen Hodgson

7 71586 Big Time Tatum 17.56 Agent & Williams

8 67473 Dottie Bell 17.87 Leanne Bell

EMERGENCIES:

9 65486 Diller 18.19 John McInerney

10 88468 Allegro Lincoln 17.92 Agent & Williams

12 Book Your Function @ Hatrick 3.22 $1510, C1, heat, 305m

1 34872 So Like Me 17.66 Carol Morris

2 63367 Cookie Biscuit 17.73 Marcie Flipp

3 36328 Opawa Gravel nwtd Marcie Flipp

4 22577 Gemmas Dilemma 18.14 John McInerney

5 36325 Sadowski nwtd Linda Martin

6 6344s Big Time Jarred nwtd Agent & Williams

7 62445 Whitman nwtd John McInerney

8 s2336 Luke Skywalker 17.79 Leigh Anne Hunt

EMERGENCIES:

9 83677 Homebush Surgeon nwtd Sue Gommans

10 14667 Bound Up nwtd John McInerney

SelectionsRace 1: BLUEY, HARDCORE PIG, BIG TIME CARNAGE

Race 2: BIG TIME CLOVER, BIG TIME JUICY,

BIG TIME AUBREY

Race 3: BIG TIME PAISLEY, BIG TIME MELODY,

ALLEGRO BERKLEY

Race 4: KINETIC BOW, AL’S WITCH, AL’S LOADED

Race 5: BIG TIME RITA, TUFF TIGER, WAITING GAME

Race 6: BORN TRIXIE, BIG TIME ALBIE, ELLE

Race 7: THRILLING GEM, BIG TIME PANDA, BIG TIME DIOR

Race 8: BIG TIME QUINN, GO GREAT, HOBSON

Race 9: BIG TIME TASHA, HOMEBUSH COOL,

HARDCORE BART

Race 10: NUTTY NUTS, BIG TIME BLAZE, ALLEGRO LEXXI

Race 11: TIGER CHURN, HOMEBUSH FURY, DOTTIE BELL

Race 12: WHITMAN, LUKE SKYWALKER, SO LIKE ME

The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, June 15, 2021 RACING 23

TENNIS

DUSSELDORF — Roger Federer made a winning start into the grass court season in Halle while French Open finalist Stefanos Tsitsipas withdrew on short notice.

Federer, 39, was given a fight by 90th-ranked Belarus qualifier Ilya Ivashka on Monday before the 10-time champion secured a 7-6 (7-4), 7-5 victory in 1 hour 35 minutes.

The 20-time grand slam champion from Switzerland had not played on grass since losing an epic 2019 Wimbledon final in five sets against world No.1 Novak Djokovic during which he wasted match points.

He underwent double knee surgery last year and came to Halle having withdrawn ahead of his French Open fourth-round match last week because his main priority is Wimbledon which starts in a fortnight.

“I think as the match went on I started to create more opportunities and started to also calm my nerves a bit,” Federer said on court after Monday’s win, according to the ATP website.

“I’m very happy and excited that I was able to get through the first one.”

While Federer advanced, organisers said that Tsitsipas would not be playing “for personal reasons.”

The 22-year-old had early Monday revealed on social media that his beloved

grandmother had died just minutes before the start of Sunday’s French Open final which he lost in five sets against Djokovic, after being two sets up.

The Halle tournament boasts five top-10 players including Federer and local star Alexander Zverev who lost to Tsitsipas on Friday in the Paris semi-finals. — DPA

Federer wins in Halle, Tsitsipas withdraws

TENNIS

BIRMINGHAM — Former top 10 player CoCo Vandeweghe has earned her first tour-level main-draw victory in nearly two years by beating Kristyna Pliskova 6-4 7-6 (1) with the help of 13 aces at the Birmingham grass-court tournament.

Vandeweghe, a 29-year-old American, reached two grand slam semifinals in 2017, at the Australian Open and US Open, and has twice been a quarterfinalist at Wimbledon. She also won the 2018 US Open doubles title with Ash Barty.

But injuries slowed her progress and forced her off tour.

Vandeweghe last won a WTA match in a tournament main draw in July 2019. Once ranked as high as No.9, she is currently No.203.

Meanwhile, the first-round match between Elise Mertens and Ajla Tomljanovic at the Viking Classic Birmingham was removed from the schedule on Monday because of coronavirus concerns.

“A player and coach were identified as a potential close contact on an arriving flight as part of UK’s NHS Track and Trace service,” the organisers said. — PA

Victory for Vandeweghe

BACK ON THE GRASS: Switzerland’s Roger Federer plays the ball during his first round match against Ilya Ivashka from Belarus in Halle, Germany on Monday. Picture by Friso Gentsch/dpa via AP

The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, June 15, 202124 SPORT

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FOOTBALL by Tales Azzoni, AP

SEVILLE — The chances came and went but neither Spain nor Sweden managed to put any of them in the net in a 0-0 draw at football’s European Championship.

Spain dominated possession and appeared the most likely for most of the Group E match but couldn’t capitalise on any of their scoring opportunities at La Cartuja Stadium.

Sweden looked dangerous only on rare occasions against the three-time European champions.

They came close to breaking the deadlock near the end of the first half when Real Sociedad forward Isak Alexander had his shot from inside the area hit the post after deflecting off Spain defender Marcos Llorente.

Alvaro Morata had Spain’s best chance just a few minutes earlier but his shot went wide with goalkeeper Robin Olsen the only opponent to beat inside the box.

Olsen saved a close-range header by substitute Gerard Moreno in the 90th.

Early in the second half, Swedish veteran Marcus Berg misfired when he should have scored, skying the ball high and wide from just metres out with the goal at his mercy.

But when the fulltime whistle came, Sweden revelled in ruining Spain’s party, keeper Olsen punching the air and the grins of their numerous travelling supporters contrasting with the emotions of their hosts.

This was a deeply frustrating start to the tournament for Spain, who broke a competition record for the most passes in the first half while ending the game with 85 percent possession and 917 passes, according to Opta.

Spain’s matches at Euro 2020 are being played in Seville instead of Bilbao — the original host city for Spain — because the high contagion rate of the virus in the northern city wouldn’t allow for many fans to attend games.

A limited crowd of 12,517 attended today’s match on a sweltering evening.

Spain’s next game is on Saturday against Poland, who lost 2-1 to Slovakia

in their group opener.Sweden, who haven’t advanced to the

knockout stage at the Euros since 2004, will tackle Slovakia on Friday in St Petersburg.

European Championship results —Group E: played on Monday, Spain 0

Sweden 0 Poland 1 (Linetty 46) Slovakia 2 (Szczesny 18 og, Skriniar 69) send-offs,Krychowiak 62 - Poland.

Group D: played on Monday, Scotland 0 Czech Republic 2 (Schick 42, 52).Played on Sunday, England 1 (Sterling 57) Croatia 0.

Group C: played on Sunday, Netherlands 3 (Wijnaldum 52, Weghorst 58, Dumfries 85) Ukraine 2 (Yarmolenko 75, Yaremchuk 79); Austria 3 (Lainer 18, Gregoritsch 78, Arnautovic 89) North Macedonia 1 (Pandev 28).

Group A: played on Saturday, Wales 1 (Moore 74) Switzerland 1 (Embolo 49). Played on Friday, Turkey 0 Italy 3 (Demiral 53 og, Immobile 66, Insigne 79).

Group B: played on Saturday, Belgium 3 (R Lukaku 10, 88, Meunier 34) Russia 0; Denmark 0 Finland 1 (Pohjanpalo 60).

Spain dominate but Sweden grind it out

FOOTBALL by Frank Griffiths, AP

GLASGOW — Patrik Schick spotted the goalkeeper off his line, launched a looping shot from just inside the opponents’ half, and gave his team a two-goal lead they wouldn’t relinquish.

Schick scored both goals for the Czech Republic today in a 2-0 victory over Scotland at the European Championship. But it was his second goal that will be talked about for years to come.

Scotland lost possession when a shot was blocked and the ball fell to Schick. The Bayern Leverkusen forward looked up and spotted opposing goalkeeper David Marshall way off his line before hitting a long, curling shot towards goal.

Marshall gave chase, but he could only watch the ball sail into the goal before he ended up tangled in net.

Schick and the other Czech players ran towards the corner of Hampden Park where a few dozen Czech fans erupted in celebration.

UEFA said it was the longest distance for a goal in the tournament at 49.7 metres. The previous record of 38.6 metres came from Germany midfielder Torsten Frings at Euro 2004.

Schick had earlier given the Czechs the lead in the 42nd minute with a powerful header after muscling himself between two Scotland defenders. It was an excellent finish that came from an equally outstanding cross from rightback Vladimir Coufal.

The Czech Republic took the lead in Group D with three points and spoiled the party for Scotland, who were returning to a major men’s football tournament for the first time since the 1998 World Cup.

Scotland started well, getting the ball up the field into crossing positions. Midfielder John McGinn had a good chance to score in the sixth minute, but his effort was deflected out for a corner.

The Czechs started gaining a foothold as the first half wore on, with Schick forcing a save in the 16th minute with a near-post effort that was palmed away by Marshall.

The home team were fired up by the 12,000 fans at Hampden Park, but it wasn’t enough.

Scotland defender Kieran Tierney was sidelined for the match after picking up a minor injury in training this week. Scotland coach Steve Clarke said he was hopeful that Tierney would be ready for the team’s next Group D match against England on Friday in London.

The Czech Republic will next face Croatia at Hampden Park on Friday.

Schick goal sets record for distance

FOILED: Sweden goalkeeper Robin Olsen saves at the feet of Spain’s Marcos Llorente during a Euro 2020 football championship Group E match at La Cartuja stadium in Seville today. AP picture

SPORTS BRIEFS

Keeper’s bad luck continuesST PETERSBURG, Russia — Poland goalkeeper

Wojciech Szczesny doesn’t have much luck in his opening game at European Championships.

Sent off in 2012. Injured in 2016. Now an own-goal at Euro 2020.

The Juventus player became the first goalkeeper to score an own-goal at the tournament in Poland’s 2-1 loss to Slovakia today.

Not that he could do much about it.Szczesny had already committed himself to a

dive in an attempt to save a shot from Slovakia winger Robert Mak in the 18th minute when the ball rebounded off his near post, on to his outstretched arm as he lay on the ground, and back into the net.

He was also left helpless for Slovakia’s winner by Milan Skriniar, barely moving as the centreback hit a fierce, low shot into the corner in the 69th minute.

Szczesny has established himself as one of the most reliable goalkeepers in Europe, his reputation having soared since joining Juventus from Arsenal in 2017. Poland has long been well-stocked with keepers, with Lukasz Fabianski also a solid option, but Szczesny is the regular No.1.

Major tournaments are not his friend, though.In 2012, he was shown a red card in the opening

game of a European Championship co-hosted by Poland, punished for a professional foul on Greece player Dimitris Salpingidis in the second half.

In 2016, and again in Poland’s opening match, Szczesny damaged a thigh muscle against Northern Ireland and wound up missing the rest of the tournament.

The pain isn’t just restricted to the European Championship.

In Poland’s opening match of the 2018 World Cup, Szczesny gifted M’Baye Niang a goal for Senegal, which went on to win 2-1. — AP

Wembley capacity increasesLONDON — The capacity at Wembley Stadium

will increase to at least 40,000 as football’s European Championship progresses after the British government decided today to further ease coronavirus restrictions in the coming weeks.

The number of spectators will be increased from the 22,500 currently permitted for the group matches despite the government delaying the removal of more wider coronavirus restrictions in England by four weeks to July 19.

The first match to benefit from the enlarged capacity will be the round of 16 game on June 29, which could feature England if the team win their group. The government’s reference to the 90,000-seat Wembley being “at minimum 50 percent capacity” for the latter matches offers the prospect of the attendance growing again for the semifinals and final.

Spectators at Wembley have to provide proof of being fully vaccinated or a negative Covid-19 test to access the stadium. That has enabled Wembley to host the biggest crowds at events in England since the start of the pandemic in March 2020.

“We want to gather further evidence on how we can open up all big events safely, and for good,” Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden said.

The pandemic prevented Euro 2020 from being staged last year. — AP

Wimbledon allowed crowdsLONDON — Wimbledon will be allowed to have a

full crowd of 15,000 at Centre Court for the men’s and women’s finals next month, a year after the tournament was cancelled entirely because of the coronavirus pandemic, the British government said today.

The grass-court Grand Slam tournament, which begins June 28, can have 50 percent capacity at the start and that will increase to 100 percent by the close on July 10-11 with the women’s and men’s singles title matches.

The government’s decision to ease Covid-19 restrictions on crowds will also allow for increased attendances at other sporting events.

Wimbledon’s cancellation in 2020 was the first time since World War 2 that the tournament hadn’t been played. — AP

Mostert staying putSUPERCARS star Chaz Mostert has ended

speculation he would fill Jamie Whincup’s seat next year by signing a new deal with Walkinshaw Andretti United.

The 29-year-old Mostert had been heavily linked with a move to Red Bull Ampol Racing in 2022 to replace seven-time championship-winner Whincup, who is retiring at the end of the year.

Instead Mostert will be staying at former Holden factory team WAU on a multi-year deal. — AAP

The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, June 15, 2021 SPORT 25

RUGBY by Ben O’Brien-Leaf

THE Gisborne Boys’ High School first 15 are clawing their way to true competitiveness.

And while their oldest foes in rugby — Napier Boys’ High School — beat them 27-20 in Gisborne on Saturday to retain the Football Challenge Cup they’ve held since 2015, the Ryan Tapsell-coached Gisborne team took another step forward in their quest for Super 8 scalps.

GBHS won only two Super 8 games in their previous campaign and lost 24-0 to Napier away last season. The hosts’ match-effort on Rectory No.1 at the weekend was several steps up on the clash with NBHS in 2019 and two steps up, performance-wise, on the 30-10 loss in this year’s Super 8 opener against Palmerston North in Gisborne a fortnight ago.

On Saturday, both packs claimed two tightheads at scrum-time, and lineout ball against the throw, with 2019 GBHS first 15 team member Lochi Mead making a superb return to the Rectory for Napier. Blindside flanker Mead, 17, scored two tries, made his tackles, and was — on the day — the game’s best lineout forward, jumping at 2.

Equally impressive was Mead’s opposite, Gisborne’s Dylan Bronlund. His total involvement and madcap enthusiasm were inspirational. So, too, were the dogged defence and quality of the Gisborne Boys’ High MVP (most valuable player), openside flanker Ben Phelps.

Matiu Anderson, who replaced third-year man Tyla Keelan-Phillips as vice-captain Max Briant’s locking partner, was heavily involved in general play, in addition to his core roles as a tight forward.

The Gisborne team’s backline switch — former fullback King Maxwell going to first five-eighth, and first-five Carlos Hihi going to fullback, yielded excellent results.

Maxwell’s ability to run and kick gives him options born of elusiveness and deft touch with the boot, as opposed to mindless muscle.

Josh Whyte started at second-five for Puna Hihi (who scored a try against Palmerston North) and looked sharp.

Izaiah Fox, who switched wing spots — left to right — with Siope Fakahokotau, made ground every time he touched the ball and never submitted in the tackle.

Gisborne won ball at various points in the lineout with a fair few jumpers, and the Gisborne defence was good from the outset. Just as importantly, they were desperate and scrambled back in cover.

Napier outscored GBHS by four tries to three but the home team showed great “pride in the line” (their goal-line defence).

The Gisborne backs’ good length of pass, natural flair, skill to create space and then beat able defenders was evident. It is tempting to wonder what Maxwell and his associates might be able to do with front-foot ball against Moascar Cup holders Rotorua BHS here on Saturday.

GBHS skipper and tighthead prop Nathaniel Hauiti is now looking ahead to Super 8 Game 3.

“That was a hard, physical game,” he said.

“We kept things simple, we were aggressive, and we executed our game-plan. I’m proud of the effort we put in.”

Napier captain and No.8 Gilgal Leutele-Malasia, a third-year man with 38 caps, shared similar sentiments.

“Gisborne at home are a different team. They were strong on defence — their blazing line-speed caught

us behind the advantage line — but well done to our boys for making the necessary adjustments. Gisborne gave us a few work-ons which we’ll attend to before we play Hastings at home this Saturday.”

On an overcast day in front of 1000 spectators, GBHS played with the wind in the first half and opened the scoring.

Maxwell missed his first attempt at a penalty goal two minutes into the game, but potted a penalty at the seven-minute mark for 3-0.

Napier struck back in the 13th minute. From a five-metre attacking scrum set eight metres to the right of the posts, first-five Lawson Gillies — for the second time in the match to that point — had to scramble back after a tough clearing pass. Six phases later the visitors had brought the ball back almost to the spot upon which the scrum had packed. Mead scored and Gillies converted for 7-3.

It was Gisborne’s turn to up the ante and they did, 17 minutes in. A lineout, 23m from Napier’s goal-line on the left touch, produced an overthrown ball that Bronlund tidied up at the tail of the lineout. Ten phases of play later, his team having worked to get within a body-length of the left goal-post, Maxwell took the ball and split the visitors’ defence to score nine metres wide of the posts. He then converted his own try, for 10-7 to Gisborne.

The first costly error of the match came in the 24th minute. From a GBHS restart at their own 22, the home team went long with the kick to halfway. Napier controlled the ball with vigour over five phases. The visitors, probing down the left side of the ground, let go the intercept pass and Gisborne right wing Siope Fakahokotau (another staff-made switch, from left-wing to right-wing) ran 70m hard and straight to score in the corner.

Maxwell could not convert from the touchline, but GBHS led 15-7 at that stage.

After 27 minutes, Poverty Bay referee Mark Green showed NBHS

vice-captain and second-five Kaitiaki Broughton the yellow card for offside play.

Stung, NBHS reacted quickly. In the 30th minute, their captain made his presence felt. Mead won an attacking lineout for Napier on the left touch, 15m into GBHS territory, and the sky blues came in waves to the right. Fullback Sam Kanthavong put through a grubber-kick, GBHS scrambled in their 22, and twice their fearless forwards (first Mead, then second-rower Will Rickey) took the deepest of breaths before crunching into Gisborne vice-captain and lock Max Briant. The visitors had retained possession over, in effect, seven phases when Gilgal Leutele-Malasia bore through Gisborne’s last line of defence 15m to the left of the posts.

Gillies converted Napier’s second try to close it to 15-14.

A minute from halftime, Napier scored their third try. Five metres from the left corner on attack at the Gisborne end, Mead won good ball at the front of the lineout and, following five thrusts into Gisborne’s defence, NBHS openside flanker Max Ratcliffe — the hosts’ choice as Napier’s MVP — scored 10m in from the corner.

The try was not converted, but the Brendon Ratcliffe-coached Blues were in the lead, 19-15, at the break.

Referee Green allowed a great deal of rugby to be played but, equally, took no nonsense.

Hauiti’s crew made a powerhouse start from the resumption, with a well-deserved try to Bronlund seven minutes in. After GBHS had put their guests under pressure, Gillies having to restart play on Napier’s 22 with a tap-kick, GBHS fielded the ball at halfway and over a staggering 13 phases made their way to the visitors’ goal-line.

Hard grind from the likes of Hauiti and lock Matiu Anderson had put the home team in a prime attacking position when Bronlund pounced over to score 15m in from the right corner.

There was no conversion. Gisborne led 20-19.

Napier knew that they needed to be the next team to score, and so — in the 50th minute — they were.

From an attacking scrum set 12m from the GBHS goal-line, three metres to the right of the posts, the NBHS captain came hard off the back of the scrum for halfback Joel Russell running right-side. Four phases later, and Mead — on the left of a ruck — took a short pass from his skipper to score 10m to the right of the posts. Mead’s second try was unconverted, and Napier led 24-20.

In the 66th minute, misfortune struck. GBHS hooker Matariki Kaa (on his own 22, right touch), found Phelps at No.6 in the lineout, Gisborne shifted the ball left but were penalised for obstruction centrefield, 18m from the goal-line.

Gillies kicked the penalty goal — off the inside of the left post — for 27-20.

Also in Round 1 of the Super 8, Hastings got by Palmerston North 23-13 at Akina on Saturday, while last Thursday four-time defending Super 8 champions Hamilton accounted for New Plymouth 36-29 at Hamilton and Rotorua clung on to the Moascar Cup 16-15 at Raukura against Tauranga.

GBHS were within striking distance of Napier and NBHS play very good rugby.

They fielded a strong pack, left wing Korie Paio’s positional play and hustle on defence were excellent, and fullback Sam Kanthavong twice served notice of his class.

The first instance was a brilliant pass to vice-captain and centre Bethel Leutele-Malasia and the second was a kick-through for right wing Dougal Kerr.

GBHS head coach Tapsell has a team who are dedicated, have gained in fitness, skills and confidence, and have brought opposition scores down significantly.

Supporters of GBHS rugby should know that they have a sense of history, mateship and team culture all their own. And the players are becoming increasingly aware that they are capable of more.

“That game showed what our boys can achieve when they stick to the game-plan,” Tapsell said.

“King was outstanding as a game-driver, Ben’s defence was superb, Carlos played his best game so far at fullback and No.8 Nik Patumaka played well again,” Tapsell said.

“We might have taken advantage when Kaitiaki was sin-binned, but instead conceded two tries. We need to learn from that.”

Former Hawke’s Bay Magpies head coach Ratcliffe spoke passionately about the fixture and where he sees both his Napier side and Gisborne BHS, in light of the weekend’s events.

“It was a contest between two really proud teams,” he said.

“Gisborne did great work against Palmerston two weeks ago, and the biggest motivator for a proud team is the need to bounce back — and Gizzy bounced back today against us.

“Our boys held composure and they now understand the Rec, the crowd, what it means to their teams to play here. They’re good enough to beat Rotorua.”

Gisborne Boys’ High School v Napier BHS, on Rectory No.1 —

First 15s: GBHS 20 (K Maxwell, S Fakahokotau, D Bronlund tries; K Maxwell pen, con) NBHS 27 (L Mead 2, G Leutele-Malasia, M Ratcliffe tries; L Gillies pen, 2 con).

Halftime: 19-15 (NBHS).Second 15s: GBHS 0 NBHS 27

(C Free 2, S Drinkrow, R Tawhai tries; C Berkett pen, con, K Barham con).

Halftime: 10-0.

Gisborne getting competitiveAnother step taken on way to Super 8 successes

STEPPING HIGH: Gisborne Boys’ High School first five-eighth King Maxwell tries to hurdle a tackler against Napier Boys’ High on Saturday. Picture by Paul Rickard

LOOKING FOR A GAP: Gisborne Boys’ High School No.8 Nik Patumaka takes on the Napier Boys’ High School defensive line on Saturday. Patumaka had another good game for his school. Picture by Paul Rickard

The Gisborne Herald • Tuesday, June 15, 202126 SPORT

RUGBY by Jack Malcolm

NGATAPA have secured their place in the Poverty Bay club rugby premier semifinals with a convincing 48-19 win against High School Old Boys.

The Ngatapa forward pack were in strong form, pressuring the HSOB scrum and putting them in all sorts of trouble at their set-piece.

HSOB struggled to get clean clearance of the ball, with their forwards being marched steadily backwards.

Ngatapa were strong on defence and were able to force turnovers with their backs against the tryline in the face of several spirited HSOB attacks.

HSOB had moments of brilliance, but they were overshadowed by Ngatapa, who capitalised on broken play with clinical precision.

HSOB were not getting the bounce of the ball, and Ngatapa kept them pinned back with efficient kicking into space.

The floodgates started to open in the second half as fatigue set in.

Once Ngatapa started to create line breaks, their big forwards were hard to stop when they had front-foot ball.

Ngatapa coach Stephen Hickey said the tight five played well, giving the loose-forward trio the space to “do their stuff”.

At times they were able to play to their game plan, but he wanted to commend HSOB for giving them a good test, despite having a diminished line-up.

For the last third of the game, scrums were uncontested, golden-oldies-style, because HSOB did not have a front-row

replacement.“Full credit to HSOB, through . . . they

played really well.”Hickey said Mike Livingston had a strong

performance for Ngatapa, starting at halfback before shifting to first five-eighth.

He hopes his side can keep up the momentum they’ve built going into their games with Waikohu and YMP, who are

both “big physical sides”.HSOB coach Danny Boyle said he was

“bloody happy” to have fielded a team over the weekend, with several old players coming back into the fold to bolster the numbers.

After putting the call out over social media that they were in desperate need of front-rowers and backs, they were able to

pull together a team.While the team had faced adversity, he

said he was proud to see the amount of support people gave their club.

Boyle said the two-week break had been a hindrance to the team and had interrupted their preparations. He said with no reserve props, they tried to go as long as they could to give Ngatapa a game, but had to revert to uncontested scrums.

The team also had two debuts in the backs.

“I really enjoyed the new players who came on (Von Huata at centre and Isaiah Lemaua on the wing) . . . they made really strong debuts,” Boyle said.

The club also welcomed film actor and past player Shane Rangi over the weekend. He had mistakenly seen social media posts about a High School Old Boys reunion, only to find out after driving up to Gisborne that it was for a Christchurch-based club.

Rangi, who played for the club in the 1980s, is now a stuntman/actor who has worked on blockbuster movies such as Iron Man and the Lord of the Rings series.

He attended the game but did not take the field.

In Senior A results, Ngatapa earned their first win of the season, beating Waikohu 14-7, Wairoa beat YMP 34-14 and Tapuae beat Pirates 34-11.

Wairoa have a commanding lead on the points table, with only one loss in 2021.They are nine points clear of second-equal Pirates and Tapuae, who are both on 18 points. YMP have 17 points, Waikohu have 14 and Ngatapa have eight.

Dominant display from Ngatapa

TAKING ON THE LINE: Ngatapa lock Dan Law sets off on a run in the premier-grade game against High School Old Boys on Saturday. Ngatapa won the match 48-19. Picture by Paul Rickard

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SUNSHINE hours

WIND km/h

RAINFALL mm

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION mm

TEMPERATURE °C

BAROMETRIC PRESSURE

Daily average for past week

Maximum

Minimum

Grass minimum

Taken at the Airport, for the 24 hours to 9am,

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less than 30

WIND km/h

30 to 59

60 or more

SWELL me.g. S 1m 1

source:

SwellMap.co.nz

15 Jun, 2021

WORLD TOMORROWAdelaide showers 9 14Amsterdam fine 13 27Bangkok thunder 25 33Beijing drizzle 21 28Berlin fine 12 28Brisbane fine 11 24Buenos Aires cloudy 5 11Cairo fine 19 35Canberra showers 0 15Cape Town fine 13 18Delhi drizzle 24 33Frankfurt fine 18 33Geneva fine 15 31Hong Kong showers 28 32London fine 17 27Los Angeles fine 20 36Melbourne showers 9 15Moscow rain 15 24New York cloudy 17 26Paris fine 19 33Perth fine 8 19Singapore thunder 25 34Stockholm fine 12 22Suva showers 23 28Sydney showers 8 21Tokyo cloudy 20 25Toronto fine 10 22

Fine.

Light winds.

Fine.

Northwesterlies dying out.

Fine with

light winds.

Fine, then rain developing

in the morning.

Light winds.

TOMORROW THURSDAY FRIDAY

SATURDAY

Fine.

Light winds.

Fine.

Northwesterlies

dying out.

Fine.

Light winds.

1924 – Waves, whipped up by

“furious” easterly gales, crashed

inland, damaging many North Island

east coast areas. The main road

north to Gisborne and the East Coast

railway line was blocked by banks of

shingle, over a metre deep in places,

washed ashore by the “fury of the

sea.”

am pm3 6 9 3 6 9noonam pm3 6 9 3 6 9noonS

0

1

2

3

0

Hicks Bay

Waipiro Bay

Tolaga Bay

Gisborne

Wairoa

Hicks Bay

Waipiro Bay

Tolaga Bay

Gisborne

Wairoa

HL

10:37am 11:05pm 4:35am 4:45pm

HL

10:24am 10:52pm 4:10am 4:20pm

HL

10:12am 10:40pm 3:58am 4:08pm

HL

10:04am 10:27pm 4:00am 4:09pm

HL

9:51am 10:07pm 3:45am 3:55pm

HL

11:24am 11:52pm 5:21am 5:33pm

HL

11:11am 11:39pm 4:56am 5:08pm

HL

10:59am 11:27pm 4:44am 4:56pm

HL

10:51am 11:15pm 4:45am 4:57pm

HL

10:37am 10:55pm 4:30am 4:42pm

FairFair

Best at

5:36 pm 5:12 am

Best at

4:48 pm 4:24 am

Set 11:16 pmRise 12:06 pm

Set 10:10 pmRise 11:36 am

Set 4:53 pmRise 7:24 am

Set 4:53 pmRise 7:24 am

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Wednesday Jun 16

Thursday Jun 17

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0.5

1.5

1

1

2.7

53.0

122.0

–

1144.1

On Monday, 14 Jun

To date for June

Average for June

To date this year

To date last year

1014.529.96

20.4

9.4

4.3

1.819.3

111.0

382.8

282.8

1.0

NW 33

Tuesday 15 Jun 2021

Max gust on Mon 14 Jun

24 hours to 9am, Tue 15 Jun

To date for June

Average for June

To date this year

To date last year

At 9am 15 Jun (hPa)

At 9am 15 Jun (inches)

18

17

18

1815

18

19

19

19

18

TODAY IN HISTORY

NZ TOMORROWAuckland showers 18Hamilton showers 17Tauranga showers 18Rotorua showers 15Taupo showers 14Napier fi ne 19New Plymouth showers 16Palmerston North showers 16Wellington showers 15Christchurch showers 13Queenstown showers 11Dunedin showers 11

morning min 7max 18

morning min 10max 19

morning min 5max 16

A broad low with associated

troughs moves slowly

across the country

tomorrow. A trough becomes

slow moving over the South

Island late Thursday, while a

weak ridge approaches the

North Island from the west.

Another trough moves over

the upper North Island late

Friday.

MIDNIGHT TONIGHT

NOON TOMORROW

3

2

1

0

METRES

GISBORNE TIDE MOVEMENT

SUN-MOON-MAORI FISHING GUIDEMaori fi shing guide by Bill Hohepa© OceanFun Publishing www.ofu.co.nz

SPORTTuesday, June 15, 2021

Tennis ................. 24

Football .............. 25

Rugby ................. 26

Rugby ................. 27

Boys’ High performance holds promise for future

Federer makes winning start to grass-court season PAGE 26PAGE 24

RUGBY INSIDETENNIS

HOCKEY by Murray Robertson

GISBORNE Boys’ High School got the Saturday afternoon hockey programme off to a flying start when they took out the Covid Cup winners Waituhi in the match of the round.

The students were deserved 4-2 winners on the Hain Farming Turf.

“Boys’ High never looked like letting their lead go,” hockey commentator Tony Scragg said.

“They took a three-goal lead into halftime, and were able to withstand the Waituhu fightback in the second half.

“A fourth goal late in the final quarter put the result beyond doubt for the students.”

In the best of the women’s matches, Ngatapa triumphed over Paikea by the same scoreline, 4-2.

“Paikea made Ngatapa work hard early in the match, but the country team got

out to a three-goal margin,” Scragg said. “Paikea scored a goal straight after

halftime to make it 3-1, but Ngatapa’s fourth goal put the finishing touches to a strong performance.”

In the other features of the weekend, the YMP women made short work of Amber Dental Gisborne Girls’ High School, scoring eight times.

To their credit, though, the students banged in two goals of their own against a team who are difficult to score against.

“It was a great effort to score twice against the women’s competition’s best team,” Scragg said.

“YMP are setting the absolute benchmark for other teams to come up to.”

GMC Green were 9-0 winners against Waituhi.

“The Green Machine moved up into second spot on the table, and they have sealed a top-four placing as a result,”

Scragg said. “But they were certainly ‘outsmarted’

by the Waituhi team’s presentation, with their new uniforms a standout feature of the game.”

GMC Kowhai nailed Te Aowera 4-0.“Kowhai’s win was not as convincing as

many thought it would be,” Scragg said.“TA made them work hard for it, and

are the fast improvers in the first round of the women’s competition.”

In the men’s games, Lytton Old Boys NZ Fruits made a statement in their 12-0 demolition of LOB Masters.

“From the first whistle to the last, the Fruits played with class, and certainly look like a team who will push the other top men’s sides this season.

“LOB chairman Patrick Ferry’s four goals made him a key man for other teams to mark this season,” Scragg said.

The YMP A men’s team did the same to their B team, winning 11-0.

“Now that YMP have split their teams for this competition round, they produced a result that was much expected,” Scragg said.

Results —

Women: YMP 8 (Nancy Tarawa 2, Madison Savage 2, Mel Knight 2, Courtney Onekawa, Moelani Tureia) Gisborne Girls’ High School 2 (Keeley Smiler, Tiari Pepere); Ngatapa 4 (Olivia Abernethy 2, Kate Pahina, Briar Hunter) Paikea 2 (Joanne McLean, Laura Matthew); GMC Green 9 (Caroline Maclaurin 3, Anahera Whaanga-Smith 2, Charlie Brown 2, Amy England, Beth Torrie) Waituhi 0; GMC Kowhai 4 (Arna Searle 2, Amber Dempsey, Emma Seymour) Te Aowera 0.

Men: YMP A 11 (Gareth Knox 3, Josh Cousins 2, Kohere Tupara 2, Thomas Rutene 2, Hamish Swann, Heath Tupara) YMP B 0; Waituhi 2 (Tam Tuhou 2) Gisborne Boys’ High School 4 (Harry Allen, Oliver Cranefield, Austin Fergus, Jack Willock); LOB Masters 0 LOB NZ Fruits 12 (Patrick Ferry 4, Oliver Shivnan 2, Liam Melville 2, Sean Wills 2, Jayden McKay, David Levy).

All-the-way winnersBoys’ High take early lead and consolidate

AT FULL STRETCH: Gisborne Boys’ High School’s Harry Allan (left) and Zane Tuhou, of Waituhi, dispute possession in club hockey at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday. Boys’ High won a keenly contested match 4-2. Picture by Paul Rickard