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by Wynsley Wrigley

THE Sport of Kings looks to be no more in Poverty Bay with news that racing is not likely to be held again in Gisborne or Wairoa.

New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing (NZTR) yesterday announced that

under proposed restructuring aimed at ensuring the financial sustainability of racing, Poverty Bay and Wairoa are among 10 tracks which will not have race-days next season and will not

be issued with a betting licence.Poverty Bay Turf Club (PBTC)

president Rod Young said the club would continue to exist and hold a race meeting at Hawke’s Bay each season.

April or May looked a likely date.Hawke’s Bay would set aside room for

PBTC to look after its sponsors.PBTC would get behind the changes

designed to put racing on a sound

financial foundation, he said.The proposal will bring to an end

150 years of racing in the district after the Poverty Bay Turf Club held its first meeting at S. Parson’s property

at Matawhero in 1870, according to MacKay’s Poverty Bay.

Mr Young said the Poverty Bay club committee met on Thursday night and took the decision on the chin.

He had been warned a week ago that the course would be closed for two years but could possibly open in the future.

But when he was later officially notified by NZTR president Bernard Saundry, the news was even worse — the course would not be reopening.

“It’s a sad day for Gisborne,” said Mr Young.

The club loved to put on a good day of racing for the Gisborne public.

Mr Saundry said the number of meetings nationwide had dropped by 17 percent since 2009, individual starters had also declined by 17 percent during the same period and the foal crop had dropped 28 percent since 2005.

End of 150-year era

ALL BETS ARE OFF: A race from what is set to be the last meeting at the Ashford Park track at Matawhero in February. NZ Thoroughbred Racing has announced that under proposed restructuring Poverty Bay and Wairoa are among 10 tracks that will not have race-days next season and will not be issued with a betting licence.

Picture by Liam Clayton

Proposal will end race-days in Gisborne, Wairoa

‘ It’s a sad day for Gisborne ’ —PB Turf

Club president Rod Young

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A NEW CHAPTER: Staff are ready to reopen the HB Williams Memorial Library in Level 2 on Monday. Pictured each holding an “Amazing Read” grab-a-bag — a new service at the library post-lockdown — are Leon McCracken (left, library service leader), Sophie Hemmington (processing), Anna Williamson (librarian systems and IT support), Cherrie Kaa (acquisitions librarian), Rose Lee (collections librarian), Diego Pedrioli (children and young adult librarian), Raschel Eesa-Danes (principal librarian collections), Michelle Kupenga (stock maintenance), Coralie Campbell-Whitehead (customer experience librarian) and Lois Haddon (library service leader).

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Picture by Liam Clayton

• Forestry running at full capacity

• Back to school on Monday

• Eateries adapt to Level 2 guidelines

• Former PM backs a ‘people’s vaccine’

• Virus forcing changes to traditions

• July rugby tests postponed

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MORE RAIN COMING: Farmers in areas still affected by the dry autumn could have their prayers answered with rain forecast between now and Thursday. The likes of these hills at Ngatapa (left) and a pond at Eastwoodhill Aboretum (above) are crying out for decent rain and those pleas could be heard. MetService’s seven-day forecast features occasional showers today, more showers tomorrow and Monday, showers turning to rain on Tuesday and rain easing to showers on Wedesday. Ngatapa has received 10mm of rain in the past 24 hours — 15mm in the past week. A Ngatapa farmer told The Herald farmers hoped for a minimum of 40mm but ideally around 100mm . . . “just not all at once.”

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LOOKING AHEAD

MONDAY

ALL THE LATEST NEWS, INCLUDING:

• Primary sectors to play key role in New Zealand’s economic recovery• The district council will not be selling assets in response to the financial implications of Covid-19• Funding boost for community law centres as demand increases• Gisborne District Council’s draft recovery plan• Local, national and international coverage of the latest Covid-19 news

A BOUQUET of flowers surrounded by bursts of colour and phrases that acknowledge people such as teachers and medical staff feature in the Thanking Essential Services Art (TESA) competition’s winning artwork.

Out of 17 finalists’ artworks, 12-year-old Sierra Blumfield won the competition with 1600 likes while in second place was 10-year-old Hanna Sofia Gamboa’s artwork with 1200 likes.

Gisborne artist Phoebe Gander was judge for the TESA competitions which featured in The Gisborne Herald over the past two Saturdays, but the ultimate winner was

decided by public vote, which was made up of “likes” on the competition’s Facebook page.

Prizes of Office Products Depot (OPD) vouchers were given each week for the two best entries.

Sierra was runner-up in last week’s weekly competition and won a $40 OPD voucher.

As ultimate winner of the TESA competition, Sierra will be presented a $250 cash prize donated by East Coast MP Anne Tolley while Hanna will receive an art class with Whakatane artist Robyn Watchorn.

“I would like to use some of my prize money to go to an art class,” said Sierra.

Hundreds of likes for TESA’s top two

RUNNER-UP: Hanna Sofia Gamboa (10) with the artwork that received 1200 likes on the Thanking Essential Services Art competition Facebook page, enough to earn her second place and an art class with Whakatane artist Robyn Watchorn. Picture by Mark Peters

THANK YOU: Sierra Blumfield (12) is the supreme winner of the Thanking Essential Services Art competition. Picture by Mark Peters

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THE forestry industry is back to operating at full capacity in Tairawhiti, according to feedback at this week’s Eastland Wood Council (EWC) meeting.

“The feedback indicates that everyone is back at full capacity with some contractors still recruiting skilled and entry-level workers,” said EWC chief executive Kim Holland.

“Member companies all commented at the meeting about how professional the contractors’ approach was to the Covid-19 protocols, and will continue to maintain

the Level 2 requirements.“As we know, health and safety is

paramount in our industry.“Silviculture contractors are getting

their numbers up, with planting due to start on Monday.

“They have found the recruitment programme, supported by EWC, FICA (Forestry Industry Contractors Association) and MSD (Ministry of Social Development) through the Work the Seasons platform, has been helpful.”

Ms Holland said truck drivers were

being recruited across all classes through the Tairawhiti Road Transport Programme to meet the needs of infrastructure projects and other sectors, including long haul, couriers, livestock, cartage and log carriers.

“Our Generation 5 is back on Monday . . . and with extra funding from Te Uru Rakau (Forestry NZ) we are able to give them additional training in tracks, wheels and rollers, driver licensing and first aid.

“Recruitment for Generation 6 will start next week for a June 15 intake,” she

said. “This is to take advantage of the current upswing in the industry and to enable those who might have lost jobs in other areas to consider a job in the forest industry, and enrol in our entry-level training programme.”

Ms Holland said with the Government announcement of investment into jobs, apprenticeships and training, it was a great time for their Generation Programme graduates to pathway into the forestry industry, and for the continued investment in “growing our people”.

Forestry back in full swing

BUSY PORT: Three overseas ships were alongside the wharf at different times yesterday. The Berge Rishiri (right) completed loading about 20,000 tonnes of logs for China early in the afternoon and sailed. Her place at the dock was taken by another log boat, the Baltic Sea. The freighter Atlantic Erica (left) took on board about 1000 pallets of kiwifruit for Japan and sailed last night. Seven more log ships are scheduled between now and early June. Picture by Liam Clayton

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READERS around the region will be happy to hear they can head back to the HB Williams Memorial Library from Monday, but there will be strict guidelines in place to ensure the safety of visitors and staff.

Librarians are already back on site in readiness for the 10am reopening.

Hours will be limited to 10am to 3pm, services will be contactless and a limit of 50 people will be allowed in the building.

Contact tracing information will be collected from all people entering the building, which is open only from the Bright Street side.

Cultural activities manager Pene Walsh said staff were as excited at seeing visitors back as library users were at having access to books again.

“We’re offering services

to make it easier for people to get books,” Ms Walsh said.

Those include click and collect, ring and request or grab-a-bag for which librarians have prepared a bag of themed books.

The book returns slot in the Bright Street carpark is already open 24/7.

Returns will be quarantined for three days as a precaution against any contamination and overdue fees will not be in effect until the end of June.

The research floor at the library is closed as are the meeting rooms.

Public programmes and services to rest homes are cancelled for now.

The Olympic Pool Complex remains closed as temporary repairs are made to leaks in the 50-metre pool.

It is hoped these will be finished by the end of next week.

Easier access to books as public library doors reopenA YMP and Poverty Bay

representative rugby player says he has avoided alcohol for months after a night spent drinking beer and straight whisky ended with him assaulting a fellow team member.

Te Peehi Fairlie, 24, was sanctioned with a three-match suspension by the club after the incident on May 11 last year.

He appeared for sentence in Gisborne District Court on a Crimes Act assault charge punishable by up to a year’s imprisonment.

Fairlie vacated an earlier not guilty plea to plead guilty.

Judge Turitea Bolstad imposed 50 hours community work. The work

sentence was appropriate given the sanction already imposed on Fairlie by his club and his abstinence from alcohol, she said.

Counsel Lucy Rishworth said Fairlie was so intoxicated at the time of the incident he was unable to recall much about it.

The offence was out of character — Fairlie’s prior convictions were not relevant.

He had since avoided alcohol and had not consumed any for the past seven months.

According to an agreed summary of facts, the victim — one of Fairlie’s teammates — went with family to the YMP clubrooms to socialise.

They were only there a short time before the clubrooms were due to close and the group decided to leave.

Others were also leaving and as the victim and his family walked through the carpark several fights broke out.

Fairlie got into a fight with the victim’s stepson.

The victim tried to intervene but Fairlie punched him three times, including once in the face, causing bruising.

Fairlie later told police he “plays up” when drinking alcohol. He remembered swinging at the victim and was “definitely aiming for his face”, but couldn’t remember if he had actually hit him.

Kicked booze to touch after drunken assault

The changes would bring in cost savings with fewer venues located closer to where horses were based.

Mr Saundry said the industry would not survive on a model created last century.

Any clubs concerned by racing at a different venue should look at the success of Feilding and Beaumont, he said.

The changes are proposals, with consultation ending on June 15.

Avondale is the most prestigious race course scheduled for closure.

The others are Poverty Bay, Wairoa, Te Teko, Waipa, Waipukura, Blenheim, Motukarara, Waikouaiti and Omakau.

Earlier this week Racing Minister Winston Peters announced a $72.5 million emergency support package, which includes $20 million

for all-weather tracks at Awapuni and Riccarton.

Gisborne Mayor Rehette Stoltz was also disappointed at the loss.

“The races were such a fun part of the Gisborne social calendar — a lovely day out for the whole family. I am saddened to hear that we have come to the end of an era.”

Wairoa Racing Club president Paul Toothill said he was not yet ready to comment.

Avondale among scheduled closuresFROM PAGE 1

The Gisborne Herald • Saturday, May 16, 2020 NEWS 3

by Kim Parkinson

GISBORNE schools will follow Ministry of Education Covid-19 safety guidelines when they reopen on Monday and while each school may have slightly different ways of doing things, the overall practises will be consistent.

A Ministry of Education bulletin says schools can provide “a transition arrangement” for children whose parents feel it’s still too risky for them to go back to school.

Te Wharau School principal Steve Berezowski is confident his students will be safe at school when the gates reopen on Monday.

“I also know there are a few parents who are more than happy to see their children return to school as they are a bit over distance learning and trying to be a teacher,” he said.

Parents have been asked to drop children off outside school and not go on to the site but Mr Berezowski said they had to be realistic.

“Many of our whanau will want to make sure everything is OK and stay with the child to make sure they settle in.”

The school had contacted parents and around 30 students would not be returning immediately.

“I am sure there will be a lot of anxious students.

“Over the first two weeks we will be focusing on our students’ wellbeing and rebuilding relationships.

“We will work on making sure they feel safe and secure and enjoy coming back to school.

“Of course we will also be ensuring they develop good personal hygiene habits very early on and learn what they need to do to help prevent the virus from spreading.

“Children are pretty resilient and I am confident when they meet up with their friends and teachers again they will

relax and get back into life at school.”Te Wharau continued providing school

lunches during lockdown and Alert Level 3.

Mr Berezowski said this was a good way to check in with parents and students to see how things were going in their bubbles.

“My two deputy principals and I had some really good conversations with our whanau about everything and anything. There was a real good community feel during this time.”

Campion College is expecting 90 percent of its students to return on Monday. All bus routes to the school will resume as normal.

In the school newsletter, the college has outlined things it will be doing differently, such as encouraging students to bring their own water bottles and not to share bottles.

Students will not be permitted to leave the college grounds for lunch. They must sanitise their hands when entering a classroom and wipe down their table with disinfectant.

The seating in classrooms has been adjusted for social distancing and students are encouraged to maintain a physical distance of an arm’s length.

■ DUE to physical distancing required at Covid-19 Alert Level 2, all students going back to school on Monday need to register to use a Waka Kura school bus to get to and from school.

“This will ensure we have adequate capacity for students per bus,” Gisborne District Council said on its website.

“Each school will have its own bus.“This registration is not for Ministry of

Education-operated buses. This is only for the Waka Kura buses operated by Go Bus for Gisborne District Council.

“The information will be kept private and only used for the purpose of Waka Kura school bus planning.”

People can register for the bus on the GDC website.

Back to school

by Kim Parkinson

GISBORNE Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) will reopen its face-to-face service on Monday but this will be limited to four days a week under Alert Level 2.

From next week clients can see a bureau volunteer from Monday to Thursday between 10am and midday or 1pm and 3pm.

To comply with Ministry of Health Level 2 rules the number of clients entering the premises will be limited, says Gisborne CAB chairwoman Robyn Stuart-Kohn.

People are asked to be patient if they cannot be seen immediately and are asked to return later or wait outside for a while.

The bureau will be following strict hygiene practices and will be doing everything to keep clients and volunteers safe.

“You will be asked to provide details to enable contact tracing. These will be kept in a confidential way and destroyed after two months,” said Ms Stuart-Kohn.

Gisborne CAB was busy during lockdown and Alert Level 3. Residential tenancy and employment were particular areas of concern.

“We received many inquiries from renters in relation to Covid-19 alerts, highlighting a range of issues.

“For example, we had tenants who suddenly had no income but still had to pay rent and all of their other expenses,” she said.

“We have also heard about flatting situations where it seemed impossible to remove an unwanted flatmate during the lockdown.

“Government measures to help renters include a rent increase freeze that is in place until late September and a ban on tenancy terminations (except where the tenant agrees to it) that is in

place until late June.”They also received a lot of calls from people

whose employers were talking about redundancy.“Understandably many businesses are

suffering because of the effects of Covid-19 on the economy but this doesn’t mean employers can shortcut the redundancy process.

“Employers are legally obliged to discuss the situation with their employees in good faith.

“This means dealing with each other honestly and openly, and without misleading.”

Redundancy should be a last resort after considering the Covid-19 wage subsidy and other assistance packages, she said.

Throughout the lockdown period Gisborne CAB volunteers helped clients using the 0800 number, online chat and email, with a large number of inquiries relating to the effect of Covid-19 on all aspects of life.

“It has been interesting working from home. We have been rostered to do two days a week with me triaging the calls and I have had a backup volunteer each day to help with inquiries.

“The calls have come in from all over the country and have been quite complex at times, so a lot of time was spent researching information for them.

“Thankfully our national office of CABNZ staff have also been busy uploading new information to our website as it arrives so we can keep updated, particularly as things change every day.

“The use of email has been good as we are able to send people links to information on our website, or other relevant websites, to ensure they have access to all the information they need.”

It had been rewarding to provide people with much-needed information and reassurance during such an anxious time in their lives.

CAB reopening for four days a week

LEACH, Rewi(Stuart). — Lovinghusband of Angela.Father of Juanita andDudley, Raewyn andChad, Brian Jnr andJess and Renata.Cherished Papa to allhis moko. Rewi is lying in stateat his family home untilhis final journey toWahakino Urupa,Whangara, on Monday18th May, 2020. Due tothe restrictions ofCovid-19, only 50persons are permitted toattend the service. Hisservice will be live-streamed for whanauand friends nationallyand internationally.Updates will follow.

ALEXANDER,Lois Ellen. —(19 May 1947). Sadly,on Tuesday, 12th May2020, we had to finallysay goodbye to you,after a short illness, atKenwyn Home, TeAroha. Wife of TerryAlexander. Mother ofDeborah and Craig, 2grandchildren, andmother-in-law of Barry.Daughter of Doris andthe late Jock Shipp, andsister to Brian. A graveside serviceto celebrate the life ofLois, will be held inHamilton ParkCemetery, ChestnutLawn, Morrinsville Rd,Hamilton, Tuesday the19th of May, at 1pm.All communications C/-Alexander family, to 6Tamihana St, Mata-mata 3400.

LEACH, Rewi Junior(Stuart). — Loved sonof Polly and the lateStuart Leach. Cherishedbrother of the lateKahu, Tom Hoera,Serah, Leann andMarcus. Adoredbrother, brother in-lawof Oti Mason, Rawiniaand the late ColinHitaua, Heni and EdWaikawa, Daphne andTawhi Waikawa,Jennine and PhillipRatapu, Brian and thelate Toni-lea, HaamiKeefe, Taina, Memoryand Leroy. Forevermissed by his manynieces nephews andmokopuna.

MATTHEWS, DianaVaughan. — On May14, 2020, peacefully athome surrounded by herchildren. Aged 75years. Adored wife ofthe late Sholto.Treasured mother andmother-in-law of Susieand MichaelDevonshire, Annie andAdam Simpson, Henryand Jules Matthews.Cherished beautiful’Disee’ to her eightmokopuna; Charlie,Max, Flora, Poppy,Hugh, Milly, Montyand Jade. Loved sisterof the late Veronica,Juliet and Tony.

A private familyservice is being held.Messages to theMatthews family, C/-PO Box 2343, StortfordLodge, Hastings 4153.

TELFER, JamesAlexander, (Jim). —Peacefully, at homewith his family, onSaturday 9th May 2020.Very dearly lovedhusband and best friendof Libby for 25 years.Loved father of Rob,Steve, and the lateChristine. Loving Popto his five grand-children and 2 great-grandchildren. Lovedbrother of Sheryl andthe late Archie andAdele. A private familyburial has taken place,and a memorial will beheld at a later date. Allcommunications to TheTelfer Family, C/- 3Hallys Lane, Cam-bridge 3434.

NEPE,MARGARET ANNE

1.12.43 - 17.5.14Six years Ma, and not a

day goes by that youare not in our hearts,minds and prayers.

Love and miss you andDad always.

Babe, Harley, Kela,Ben, Alia, Maia, Kaea,Crout and Reign xoxo

MARGARET ANNENEPE

1.12.1943 - 17.5.2014The world changesfrom year to year.

Our lives from day today. But the love andmemory of you Mum,shall never fade away.You’re with us wheneach day dawns, and

when we say goodnight.You are our Angel hereon Earth, and in Heavenyou’re the shining light.We count our blessings,

and reminisce asfamilies always do,and remember the

wonderful woman, ourMum...that was YOU.

With love always.Suez, Tahn, Emma,

Carol, Rube and Babe~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

She was our Nan andBig Nan, who hugged

us, kissed us,and loved us

unconditionally...kept inour hearts always.

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RATAPU, Kereopa (Kelly). - C763625 Corporal: 12 December 1963 - 9 April 2020 and was laid to rest on 24 April at Maramahātea, Tawapata. He uri o Rongomaiwah ine , Ngāti Kuia, Te Aitahanga a Mahaki me Te Tairawhiti no Kurahaupo me Horouta waka. Kereopa passed peacefully in Whakatū- Nelson. Loved by his children, Numia, Vance, Kelton, whangai Rozanna, mokopuna Seifer, Salem, Vizion, Massive, Zaidan and Clara, his siblings, whānau, hapū, Iwi, whanaunga, friends, associates and colleagues. Cherished by all, forever loved. Arohanui ake tonu ake, hoa rangatira Tracey Kingi, moe mai i taku tau. WhakamihiTēnā koutou katoa o ngā Iwi o Te Tau Ihu o Te Waka a Māui, me te whānau Ratapu, Kereru, me te whānau Tamatea, Mataawaka o te Tai Aorere, ngā marae o Te Tau Ihu, Pouwhakataki- NZ Pirihimana Te Taiaorere, Te Kaunihera o Whakatū, Te Hāhi Ringatū o Te Wairua Tapū, Te Hāhi Mihingāre Whakatū, Te Piki Oranga, N e l s o n - T a s m a n Hospice, Ngā Tarahitī o Tawapata Sth 3A4, DPMC, Mum me oku whānau, me ngā whanaunga, ngā hoamahi, me ngā hoa katoa.He mihi aroha kia koutou mo koutou mahi whakamahana I runga I te mātātuhi tūturu tangihanga o Kereopa. Mo ngā karakia I noho ki te hohipera, Te Hāhi Ringtū i tuku wairua me ngā karakia ia ata ia po, tae atu ki tōna ukaipo ki Maramahātea. Kanui tonu nga mihi kia koutou katoa, e rau rangatira mā, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa.Shone & Shirley Funeral Directors thank you for the exemplary service to assist with Kereopa’s return to his ukaipo Maramahātea. To all whānau, friends, colleagues, and associates too many to name, who gave aroha and tautoko during this time, kanui, kanui taku aroha kia koutou katoa, na Tracey.

JACK KURU

A LEGEND HAS FALLEN

My sweetie has gone to be with the Lord, on Tuesday the 12th of May 2020. He ran the race to win and now he has obtained the greatest reward.

Te Moananui Turoa Kuru (Jack) is a legend who leaves behind a legacy of hard work, faithfulness and generational blessing.We rejoice as he joins the great cloud of witnesses.A champion in the NZ forestry industry and a pioneer of roading development techniques in the East Coast region.Forever loved by his wife Susan, his children Rachelle and Matt, Ricky and Leanne, Hine and Terry, Arana and Runa, and Matthew and Sarn.Jack also lives on through his 16 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, there will be a memorial to celebrate Jack’s life. Date to be announced.

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Mike Tololi“A little bit excited. It’s a bit more normal.“

Dawn elsMore“It’s very nice to get back to normal.”

Terence o’connor“I liked it better when it was easier to get around.”

coDy wrighT“Acclimatising to the new normal is weird. In public you have to remember to keep physically distant. It’s nice to be outside but you feel a bit alienated.

Jessica wrighT“I feel more alive. I’ve been inside not doing anything, getting up at 12. It’s good to be back in the game.”

Tiana Moa“Way more free. Our freedom has expanded by a million.”

abby Moa“It’s really exciting because we haven’t been out in so long and now we can do so much more.”

aroha Te aroha“It’s great to be free, to walk around the streets and meet up with people.”

reuben burgess“It feels great to be outside. There’s a sense of community — and it’s good to get some clothes shopping done.”

Tui haenga“I’m looking forward to a beer.”

On the street

“How do you

feel about

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Alert Level

2?”THIS WEEK’S QUESTION:

VOTE ONLINE: www.gisborneherald.co.nz

70% 28% 2%

On the webDo you think restoration of Gisborne’s rail link should be part of the Government’s Covid-response infrastructure funding package?

lasT week’s quesTion

Yes: 308; No: 125; Don’t Know: 11; Total: 444

Do you think the district council has a credibility issue to overcome when it comes to cost estimates for its major projects?

Online polls are not scientiic and relect the opinions of only those internet users who have chosen to participate • Percentages may not

total 100 due to rounding

Yes No Don’t know

by Matai O’Connor

A MAJORITY of voters in this week’s web poll think the restoration of the Gisborne rail link should be part of the Government’s Covid-19 response infrastructure funding package.

Seventy percent (308 votes) voted yes to the question, with 28 percent (125 votes) choosing no and 2 percent (11 votes) saying they “don’t know” making a total of 444 votes.

“This project fits with the Government’s goals of reducing climate change impacts while boosting regional productivity.

“Moving some freight by rail would reduce our use of fossil fuels.

“It would also provide a more economical transport option for fresh produce destined for export, processed timber and other freight,” a yes voter said.

“It is well known that investment in infrastructure drives business growth and by extension employment,” said another.

“Rail is an important part of our transport modes.

“Most necessary for the long term future of the East Coast region in a world requiring less use of fossil fuels.”

One suggested the line could be used for tourism, “not only for upgrading freight movements from the East Coast to the rest of New Zealand but also for a very scenic East Coast passenger service,” they said.

“The BERL report clearly states that it is a viable proposition to reinstate the line,” another yes voter said.

“Emphatically yes, but not only part of the Covid response but also looking to support the future economic growth of the Tairawhiti region.

“The Gisborne District Council and Mayor need to fully get behind this project and start some lobbying from here.We need a collaborative approach to restoring this iconic piece of rail infrastructure.”

“This is the sort of infrastructure project that is a long-term investment.”

Among those who voted no, one said: “The two things are completely unrelated.

“Rail needs to prove its case for investment. It closed not because of the slip but because not enough freight used it.”

Another said it was “a pipe dream now”.“Money should be spent on the people who

have lost their jobs.” “The ongoing maintenance costs for the small

amount of use will be excessive,” another no voter said.

And from another, “the rail link has nothing

to do with the current crisis. The rail link is an important alternative to road and should be restored on its own merits.”

Another suggested a different freight movement option — “I don’t see it being sustainable long term. Coastal shipping, yes.”

“Some of the other projects put forward for funding are more appropriate for regional economic stimulus.

“It will be underused I think. Maintenance is costly. Finish the wastewater upgrade.”

One no voter said unless it was going to be well-used for rail, “turn it into an amazing walk/cycleway”.

“The amount it would take to restore the railway is too much and there is not enough freight to make it a viable proposition.

“The money would be better spent in the health area.”

Most want Covid-19 package to help rail line

by Mark Peters

MINUTES after pandemic alert response Level 2 was announced the Wharf Bar and Grill’s phone rang hot with bookings, says owner/operator Grant Fussell.

“We are back to normal dining and there is a demand for tables,” says Mr Fussell.

“People want to get out of the house so booking ahead is recommended.”

As with all eateries contacted by The Gisborne Herald, the Wharf Bar is operating within Level 2 rules of socially-distanced tables, single servers per table and a traceable check-in system.

They offer a winter menu with feel-good food, says Mr Fussell. There is also a contact-free payment system for customers who want to order by phone and pick up meals.

Gisborne Tatapouri Sports Fishing Club reopened for sit-in diners this week and has enough space to accommodate 100 people, with two metres between tables.

The restaurant will continue to serve takeaway meals. These can be ordered by phone and collected from a table set up at the back of the club.

The Vines restaurant at Bushmere Estate is serving lunch from Wednesday to Sunday and will open for dinner by arrangement.

“The only thing we can’t do in Level 2 is wine

tasting,” says owner Melissa Murphy. “But we can offer wine flights at the table.”

Wine flights give patrons the opportunity to sample five wine tasters which come with notes about each wine.

Customers can phone or email the restaurant to book and will then be notified about what nights are available.

Meanwhile, The Vines management is working on a new initiative called Diners Club.

“Once it is up and running people can register and we will notify them when we are open for dinner.”

Mrs Murphy and husband Spud’s other restaurant, The Rivers, also offers in-house dining.

Patrons can order drinks with their meals but The Rivers will not be operating as a pub during Level 2.

Friends Indian Restaurant and Sofra Turkish Cafe will continue to offer collection-only lunches and dinners.

Verve Cafe and Bar has temporarily relocated to Grey Street while the Gladstone Road premises undergoes earthquake-strengthening, and can be found across the road from the Paul Nache Gallery.

The cafe offers sit-down breakfasts and lunches and continues to fill takeaway orders.

The Flagship Eatery at the river end of Childers Road offers both seated dining and pickups for breakfasts and lunches. Some tables have been removed to ensure social distancing.

Dining out in Level 2Or you can pick it up and take it home

WALKING tracks, huts and boat ramps, as well as hunting and fishing, reopened at Te Urewera this week.

However, Te Urewera board chairman Tamati Kruger stressed they would “continue to ensure safety above all else and take a cautious approach”.

“These Level 2 standards will help manuhiri (visitors) and tangata whenua (people of the land) look after each other and take responsibility for our movements and hygiene in Te Urewera.”

Now inter-regional travel is allowed under Level 2, many people from outside the Te Urewera area were expected to visit, said Mr Kruger.

“Just as we ask manuhiri to care for nature when they come to Te Urewera by packing in and out their rubbish, we also ask them now to care for the communities of Te Urewera as well as fellow visitors by observing some simple measures to stop any possibility that Te Urewera becomes a site of Covid-19 transmission.

“Social distancing remains in force. Remember to keep a two-metre distance from any new friends on tracks or at camps and

huts. Because social distancing may not be possible overnight in huts, we urge anyone planning a hut stay to bring camping equipment just in case.”

Because Covid-19 has not been fully eradicated in New Zealand Te Urewera kaitiaki (guardians) cannot allow the virus a foothold in the region’s valleys and communities, or let it become a site for transmission to visitors, says Mr Kruger.

“That is why we must all continue to be careful and vigilant with our actions.”

Visitors to Te Urewera are required to —

•Takecleaningequipment(ata minimum, antiviral disinfectant and cloth) and thoroughly clean any surfaces, such as hut kitchens, they come into contact with.

•Filloutatripreportbeforetravelling to allow contact tracing of anyone who might be found to have had contact with Covid-19.

•Filloutintentionbooksinanyhuts or shelters visited. Visitors must bring their own pens.

•InWaikaremoana,checkinatTe Kura Whenua to let staff know of visitors’ presence.

‘Safety above all else’

The Gisborne Herald • Saturday, May 16, 2020 NEWS 5

by Cherie Howie, NZ Herald

AUCKLAND — After seven long, lockdown weekends, this weekend we can do, pretty much, whatever we like.

We can take the boat out. We can watch our home region disappear in the rear view mirror. We can order smashed avo at brunch with our besties.

If the fluoro lights call, we can even brave the mall.

We can’t socialise in groups larger than 10, and still need to keep our distance from those not in our bubble. But Kiwis today welcome their first weekend at Alert Level 2, after seven weeks under the more restrictive levels 3 and 4 to stop the spread of Covid-19.

It’s going to be a nice day for it.A stalled high is bad news for rain-

deprived Auckland, where stretched water supplies sparked strict restrictions, but is great news for those itching to bust out beyond the four walls of home and enjoy their favourite outdoor spots.

Our biggest city can expect cloudy periods, but mild highs of 19 degrees, today and tomorrow.

It’s much the same elsewhere, with dry weather and temperatures in the teens expected almost everywhere.

Only some eastern areas of the North Island and, briefly today, Coromandel and eastern Northland, would catch showers.

That’s good news for the country’s leaders — Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is planning a breakfast out with family, while National Party leader Simon Bridges wants to visit his parents and the barber on his first Level 2 weekend. New Zealand First leader Winston Peters is heading home to Whananaki to catch up on work.

The temptation to get out and enjoy Level 2 freedoms has prompted a string of warnings from authorities.

Testing identified one new case of Covid-19 yesterday, after three consecutive days of zero new cases.

The case was linked to the Marist College cluster and from a person now not considered infectious, Director General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield said.

But it reinforced Covid-19’s “long tail” and the need to stay vigilant, including with handwashing, physical distancing and staying home when sick, Bloomfield said.

“We need to keep consistently doing

the things which will help keep all New Zealanders safe.”

The first day of Level 2 started quietly, with just three breaches — all resulting in a warning — in the first 18 hours, police said.

An “education-led approach to enforcement” would continue this weekend.

During Level 3, police took enforcement action against 1231 people in relation to breaches of either the Civil Defence Emergency Management Act or the Health Act.

Just under 300 people were eventually prosecuted, with the remainder warned or referred to Youth Aid.

A spike in accommodation bookings this week laid bare the desire of many to get away — a move which brought smiles to the battered hospitality industry.

Hospitality New Zealand has already this week welcomed Lion’s Cheers to Your Local social media campaign, which encourages Kiwis to publicly share their support for their favourite venues.

Getting out required care, with many not behind the wheel for weeks, national road policing manager, acting superintendent Gini Welch said.

“We may be feeling a bit rusty behind the wheel or overwhelmed by the amount of cars back on the road

again.”Motorists be warned also — paid

parking is back throughout Auckland for both on and off-street parking.

That also went for bus lanes, T2/T3 lanes and clearways, Auckland Transport group manager of parking services and compliance John Strawbridge said.

“Please comply with the restrictions. We don’t want to issue you infringements, we want to keep the city moving.”

And boaties should check their vessels for pests, both above and below the water, before heading out, Auckland Council said in reference to biosecurity risks.

Water Safety New Zealand also had a message for boaties, along with fishers and divers.

“We need everyone to take the necessary precautions so our frontline rescue services do not get overrun,” chief executive Jonty Mills said.

Gear, engine and weather forecast checks, lifejackets for all on board and two waterproof ways to call for help are needed.

Rock fishers should wear lifejackets, assess conditions and avoid unnecessary risks.

“Sadly we had our first drowning of lockdown this week. Our waters are especially cold as we head into winter.

“If there is even a remote possibility you could end up in the water, ensure you know water survival skills, wear a lifejacket as well as clothing that gives you thermal protection.”

Kiwis welcome first Alert Level 2 weekend

by Cherie Howie, NZ Herald

AUCKLAND — Surprise — there’s more of us on the road under Alert Level 2 than Level 3.

But the number of vehicles on New Zealand roads since the country moved to a less restrictive alert level remains down on comparisons with last year, according to New Zealand Transport Agency data.

Daily traffic counts in the main centres recorded an increase in volumes on Thursday, the first day of Level 2 — when Kiwis were allowed to travel beyond their own region, visit anyone outside their household and shops reopened after seven weeks of restrictions aimed at stopping the spread of Covid-19.

In our largest city, traffic was at 60 percent compared to last year, but up 28

percent when compared with the previous week — when Alert Level 3 remained in place.

Other centres saw a sharper rise, most significantly in the South Island.

In Christchurch, traffic was at 65 percent of last year, but up 52 percent on the previous week, while Dunedin traffic was at 64 percent compared with last year and up 44 percent on the week before.

Hamilton traffic was the closest to last year’s figures, at 78 percent, with a 35 percent rise on the previous week. In Wellington, traffic was 55 percent of last year and up 40 percent on last week.

The above increases last week are for light traffic. All main centres also saw an increase in heavy traffic last week — 10 percent for Auckland and Hamilton,

20 percent for Wellington, 5 percent for Christchurch and 17 percent for Dunedin.

Meanwhile, police also asked Kiwis

to take extra care on the roads as the country made the transition to Level 2 life.

Some drivers could be a little rusty after up to seven weeks of not driving, national road policing manager, Acting Superintendent Gini Welch, said.

“We expect there will be a lot of people out and about this weekend, meeting with family and friends they haven’t been able to see since before Alert Level 4. We know people will be keen to get a bit of normality back in their lives and head to their favourite cafe, the hairdresser, or visit malls with friends.

“We’ll also have children returning to schools on Monday. So it’s important we remember to take it easy on the roads this weekend and to slow down around schools next week.”

Motorists urged to take care as traffic increases

IN BRIEF

Bullet holes in missing man’s carTAURANGA — Bullet holes have been found in a

burned out car belonging to a Tauranga man missing since January.

Julian Varley, 31, was last seen on January 23 wearing a red tie-dyed t-shirt and a hat.

Police have released fresh details about the case in the hope others will come forward with more information.

CCTV footage from that day showed Varley driving his blue and silver 1998 Nissan Pulsar at the Poike roundabout on State Highway 29A, which runs south of Tauranga.

His car was found aflame hours later on Oropi Road near SH36.

Police said the discovery of bullet holes was a significant and sinister development. — RNZ

Deputy Commissioner retiresWELLINGTON — Deputy Commissioner Mike Clement

has announced his retirement after 42 years at NZ police.

Clement, who has been the deputy commissioner for national operations since 2014, said he would retire at the end of June.

He also led the organisation’s management of firearms law reform after the March 15 terror attack, including the buy-back scheme, and played a key role in the response to the Whakaari/White Island eruption.

In a statement, he said he was incredibly proud of police and what the organisation represented.

“Most of all, I have had the pleasure of working with great people who do incredible work for New Zealand.”

Police Commissioner Andrew Coster thanked Clement for his “enormous contribution over more than four decades”.

“I wish Mike all the best for a well-earned and happy retirement with his family, who have had to share him with us for so long.”

Clement has worked in the undercover programme and on high-profile investigations including examining historical sexual allegations against former and serving police officers.

Clement had been tipped to replace the previous Police Commissioner, Mike Bush, who stepped down from the role last month.

Just ahead of Coster’s appointment to the role, Police Minister Stuart Nash confirmed the Independent Police Conduct Authority (IPCA) had investigated Clement.

The IPCA said its report would not be made public and it would be making no further comment. — RNZ

One injured in moped crashHASTINGS — Ambulances were called to the scene

of an alleyway crash that saw three people come off a moped near Flaxmere College.

Police were called to the incident at 3pm yesterday in an alleyway off Chatham Rd.

A police spokeswoman said three people, aged in their 20s, came off the moped with at least one person being injured.

A man in his 20s was taken to Hawke’s Bay Hospital in a moderate condition. — NZ Herald

Car left vertical after crashCHRISTCHURCH — A car was left standing vertically

on its front-end in Christchurch following a crash on State Highway 76 yesterday evening.

The small red car lodged itself in the median barrier between both lanes of the highway.

Incredibly, no one was injured in the crash, a Fire and Emergency spokesman said.

The crash resulted in the closure of SH76 near the Wrights Road overpass, NZ Transport Agency first reported at 7pm.

However, by 8.40pm the crash had been cleared and the road was reopened to motorists. — NZ Herald

FREEDOM WEEKEND: This weekend marks the first in Alert Level 2, and Kiwis are expected to flock to restaurants, barbers and malls. NZ Herald picture

‘ We need to keep consistently doing the things which will help keep all New Zealanders safe. ’ —Dr Ashley Bloomfield

The Gisborne Herald • Saturday, May 16, 20206 NATIONAL NEWS

AUCKLAND — A controversial dummy run party went ahead last night at Leo Molloy’s Auckland Viaduct bar with around 80 guests bursting their bubbles for the Level 2 bash.

Destiny Church’s Brian and Hannah Tamaki were among those to turn out at HeadQuarters bar, along with their friend and former PR man Jevan Goulter.

Former NZ women’s rugby international and television presenter Melodie Robinson was also in attendance, along with National’s deputy leader, Paula Bennett. Molloy invited 100 of his friends for the trial-run party, and even sought permission and advice from the police.

Among those on the original guest list were former All Blacks coach Sir Graham

Henry, Auckland MP Nikki Kaye, Maori Party co-leader John Tamihere, band members from True Bliss and former MP Hone Harawira.

But at 8pm, VIPs seemed to be in short supply.

Brian Tamaki left HeadQuarters after an entree of tuna because he had a prior commitment to attend to. He told reporters the event was really well run and all guests appeared to be having a good time.

Dancing had been banned due to physical-distancing requirements and the music was playing quietly enough for people to talk to one another.

Molloy has courted controversy over his party plan, which was decried by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and other bar owners. — NZ Herald

A-listers in short supply at controversial party

LEVEL 2 PARTY: Guests arriving at the waterfront bar were checked off the guest list before they were temperature-tested by staff and allowed inside. NZ Herald picture

by Meriana Johnsen, RNZ

WELLINGTON — Whanau Ora providers are sceptical the significant boost in funding announced in the Budget will meet the huge demand from families doing it tough.

The Government has topped up the Whanau Ora budget by $136 million over the next two years, with $53m going to the Covid-19 response, and $73m for the three commissioning agencies.

Minister for Whanau Ora Peeni Henare said that more than 15,000 new whanau reached out to Whanau Ora support services over the last two months, and that is only expected to grow.

Hau Ora o Nga Puhi, a Whanu Ora provider based in the Far North town of Kaikohe, has been inundated with families needing help to pay for large power bills or needing food packs.

The provider is run by Te Runanga o Nga Puhi, and its chief executive Te Ropu Poa said the Budget increase “looks okay on paper” but she was unsure if it would help families in the long-term.

She said funding allocation to Whanau Ora providers should be weighted towards those situated in rural areas that have higher travel costs, and lower employment.

“How do you assess a whanau that lives out in the country as opposed to a whanau that lives in a household in town — there’s no comparison because they have got to pay for travel and all those expenses as well.”

She was disappointed there were no increases to benefits or to help with household costs.

“If you’re looking at entitlements, and there’s no increase, there certainly should have been the ability to assess more on the need per household.”

Kaikohe, and the wider Te Tai Tokerau region, are already struggling with a drought, high unemployment and a lack of affordable housing, and Poa said these problems were being exacerbated by Covid-19.

Te Putahitanga o te Waipounamu, the South Island Whanau Ora commissioning agency, has had 4200 more whanau to support over lockdown — more than they would usually see in one year.

“I’m terribly concerned about some of the situations that our families are facing — excessive power bill demands, housing inadequacy, the experiences of whanau

who have gone through job loss, who have compromised health,” Poa said.

“We were looking for a Budget that would enable opportunities to address hardship, to nurture aspiration, and to foster innovation — it is unclear at this time whether this Budget will deliver on our expectations,” she said.

She was pleased that it appeared from the Budget the Government was

committed to funding Whanau Ora in the longer-term, as the operational funding had been consolidated and brought together previous funding adjustments in earlier budgets.

After speaking with the Minister for Whanau Ora, Leahy said the needs and rights of whanau in the wake of Covid-19 had been considered in this Whanau Ora budget.

North Island commissioning agency head Merepeka Raukawa-Tait said there was some confusion around the distribution of funds and the difference between operational and additional funding.

But after meetings with the Minister since the Budget announcement, she

said that had been clarified, and she was pleased the Government was committed to Whanau Ora.

Minister of Whanau Ora Peeni Henare said that the funding was designed to be a top-up to the $15m in funding the agencies had already received for the Level 4 lockdown.

He came under fire last year after funding earmarked for Whanau Ora was given to government agencies instead, which resulted in a group of prominent Maori leaders taking a claim to the Waitangi Tribunal over the lack of transparency and inadequacy of Whanau Ora funding.

Minister Henare has assured them that this is not happening now.

“None of the money that was announced in the Budget today, has been tagged to any other initiative other than ones that we can work together on with commissioning agencies to serve our people.”

He said the only exception was the 1 percent of the Budget announcement, which would be used for administration purposes for Te Puni Kokiri.

He said the funding boost was in response to the demand over Covid-19, and not in response to the concerns raised by the Maori leaders last year.

Money ‘may not meet demand’

PALMERSTON NORTH — After weeks cooped up, the nation breathed a sigh of relief this week — finally free to travel and see loved ones.

But the relief soured when the only nationwide bus network, InterCity — which provides cheap transport to 600 far-flung destinations — cancelled 3500 tickets saying it would not be running services again until the end of the month.

It said it could not afford to operate under the physical-distancing rules, with the Bus and Coach Association warning the long-distance and tourism bus industry faces oblivion because of the rules.

Patty Wigley, 93, from Palmerston North, takes an InterCity bus at least twice a month to visit friends and family across the country.

She said she was gutted her bus ticket to meet her great-grandchild for the first time was cancelled.

“It is very disappointing, I find I’m very frustrated that I can’t visit people. I’ve got great-grandchildren in Auckland and lots of friends, I just hope it is all going to come right.”

About 1.5 million people ride with the company every year, and the vast majority of them — 85 percent — are domestic travellers.

With the borders closed to international visitors, the tourism industry is desperate for New Zealanders to fill the gap and spend up large.

Wigley said that could not happen while InterCity’s fleet was idle.

“They say we need to see New Zealand — of course we do — but how can you if you can’t get on a bus or a train or something? Not everyone has got cars, anyway.”

Right now if you do not own a car, or don’t drive or have a licence, your transport options are limited. KiwiRail is only running one inter-regional service, with no timetable for when the others will reopen.

All the Interislander ferry sailings for the next two weeks are fully booked — bar two — although the company is still deciding whether to bring on an extra ferry to meet demand.

The Bluebridge ferry has no tickets available until after next week, with just a smattering left after then.

While there might be locally-run shuttle or bus options in the regions, none have the reach or regularity of the InterCity network. — RNZ

Bus cancellations leave transport options limited

‘ I’m terribly concerned about some of the situations that our families are facing. ’ —Te Ropu Poa

Budget’s commitment to Whanau Ora might fall short

The Gisborne Herald • Saturday, May 16, 2020 NATIONAL NEWS 7

Today’s business coverage is on pages 22-23

CHRISTCHURCH — The historic Isaac Theatre Royal could face permanent closure if staff are not able to recoop “crippling” running costs.

An online donation page has been set up in lieu of income from regular events, which could be on hold for more than three months.

The 112-year-old Edwardian style theatre on Gloucester Street has been run by a charitable foundation since it was saved from demolition in 1980, and it underwent a $40 million rebuild after the Canterbury earthquakes.

Its chief executive, Bob Mangan, said staff had taken pay cuts, opted into the wage subsidy, and slashed as many operating costs as possible while weathering the impacts of Covid-19.

However, there was still significant upkeep costs to cover including power, fire and compliance obligations, plus major drainage repair work that needed to be completed by October.

“That project is still being added up, but it will be in the vicinity of $150,000,” Mangan said.

In just over a week, the donations page has collected more than $17,600 towards a $95,000 goal.

“The Isaac Theatre Royal is a very special venue with a strong connection to its community. It’s for the people of Canterbury . . . and the people of Canterbury have come to the fore since 1908, particularly in 1980 but also after the quakes,” he said.

Mangan said under Alert Level 2, the theatre would eventually be able to open for shows with fewer than 100 people — but border restrictions meant that artists were not touring, and lockdown restrictions had created

a bottleneck of local content.“Normally, it would take between

three to six months before you have an artist play at your venue. We’re part of the entertainment ecosystem, so when the promoter doesn’t swing the bat and bring the artist then the rest of us downstream suffer,” he said.

Likewise, he said that venues like the Isaac Theatre Royal need to keep afloat, so they did not create knock-on effects for artists, tech staff, cleaners, security staff, transport workers, the hospitality industry or accommodation providers.

Down the road at Worcester Boulevard, some performers, artists and gallery owners are returning to the Christchurch Arts Centre this weekend and crediting the help of hundreds of donors for keeping them afloat.

More than $11,000 was fundraised for it to reopen, starting with its retail stores and galleries, children’s dance and drama classes and an interactive project exploring physical distancing.

Chief executive Philip Aldridge said that money had gone a long way, in getting projects up and running.

He said it was still an “extremely nervous” time for anyone in the arts industry and not many people realised the Christchurch Arts Centre was a charitable trust, with no government or council funding.

“So we’re very grateful to all those people who have come to our aid and come to the aid of the arts,” he said.

“We won’t be doing our full range of operations yet but we are beginning.

“And I think the best thing we can all do is get out there and support each other.” — RNZ

Historic venue faces closure

CRIPPLING COSTS: The Isaac Theatre Royal underwent a $40 million rebuild after the Canterbury earthquakes, but there are still significant upkeep costs. NZ Herald picture

by Nicholas Jones, NZ Herald

AUCKLAND — There was a reluctance to volunteer to work in the coronavirus-stricken rest home, and some staff who stepped up were soon concerned for their safety.

CHT St Margaret’s residential aged-care home in Te Atatu recorded its first Covid-19 case on April 4 and was soon overwhelmed by an outbreak that turned deadly.

Residents and staff alike got infected and others went into precautionary isolation. The local DHB, Waitemata, sent in nurses and healthcare assistants.

The Weekend Herald has confirmed some of those DHB staff raised concerns about personal protective equipment (PPE), a term for gear like face masks and gloves used to shield against possible infection.

St Margaret’s was following PPE practices recommended by the Ministry of Health for aged-care facilities, on the advice of regional health authorities and the DHB.

However, those weren’t as stringent as the newly arrived staff were used to within hospitals, or guidelines the NZ Aged Care Association gave members, including St Margaret’s.

NZ Nurses Organisation kaiwhakahaere Kerri Nuku said nurses spoke up because they needed to feel safe.

“It certainly was different from the gear our nurses were used to using inside DHBs,” she said of the situation at St Margaret’s.

“There should be some consistency in the type of PPE gear (used), in accessibility, the appropriateness and the training.

“If you get put in somewhere unfamiliar and you are using gear that is perhaps of a lower standard, then you need to be safe and feel safe. And the nurses were concerned about the level of quality (of the) PPE gear.”

The aged-care facility has resident suites and a dementia unit and is run by CHT Healthcare Trust, a charity with 16 aged-care facilities across the upper North Island.

CHT chief executive Max Robins said all its facilities had strictly adhered to ministry guidelines for PPE and infection control. Contact-tracing immediately began after confirmation of the first case, and Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) advised who to isolate.

“PPE has been available before the first positive case was confirmed and continually available with support from the DHB to ensure our stock levels were adequate. We have consistently adhered to the MOH (Ministry of Health) guidelines for PPE use when working with people who either did or did not have symptoms.”

The NZ Aged Care Association, which represents more than 90 percent of the sector,

recommends staff in facilities with suspected, probable or confirmed Covid-19 use an N-95 face mask (designed to fit tight and prevent inhalation of small airborne particles), fluid-resistant gowns and protective goggles.

That goes further than ministry advice that N-95 masks aren’t needed except for procedures that cause airborne particles or respiratory droplets, and that only a surgical mask and hand washing can be enough when treating patients who don’t have symptoms and aren’t suspected cases, depending on risk of exposure to bodily fluids.

Robins, who is on the board of the NZ Aged Care Association, said he was aware of the difference in guidelines.

“While we were aware of the NZACA advice, the Waitemata DHB and APRHS both advised us to strictly follow the MOH guidelines, which we did, as well as providing us with PPE advice when required.”

A Waitemata DHB spokeswoman said its staff had requested the PPE they were familiar with at their usual workplace, and this was immediately provided.

St Margaret’s closed to visitors from March 23. Its first case was confirmed on April 4, and three

days later the DHB was told of an outbreak.

Wider communication was lacking; the family of one resident were only officially told there was Covid-19 in the facility on April 16 and after making inquiries themselves following media reports naming St Margaret’s.

The DHB eventually had to cover up to 85 percent of the facility’s staffing, but was relying on staff to volunteer to go — and many were reluctant.

Despite daily meetings between the rest home and the health board’s incident management team, there had been little discussion of what would happen if it became unsafe to manage the residents at the facility.

That point was reached as staffing issues grew, and groups were urgently moved by ambulance to hospitals on April 17.

The transfers were because of staffing problems not for health reasons, but the residents quickly deteriorated, with all confined to their beds, incontinent, coughing and unable to follow instructions. Over the following week, three died.

Concerns have now been raised about PPE use at the two rest homes that have lost residents to Covid-19. The NZ Herald previously revealed the coronavirus outbreak at Rosewood rest home in Christchurch spread so rapidly that there were “safe practice” issues, including the way PPE was used.

Twelve Rosewood residents have died, and the toll from the Rosewood and St Margaret’s outbreaks account for 15 of the country’s 21 deaths.

Inside a deadly Covid-19 cluster

St Margaret’s was following PPE practices recommended by the Ministry of Health for aged-care facilities.

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Ratepayers have had a bad week, with Gisborne District Council revealing a major cost blowout on one project and suggesting the same for another.

The estimated cost of the city’s wastewater treatment plant upgrade has jumped $9.1 million or 37 percent from $24.4m to $33.5m, and with this new budget being based on a preliminary design, CEO Nedine Thatcher Swann says it could rise a further 15-20 percent.

Councillors grilled managers on the causes of the blowout during a two-hour debate at their meeting on Thursday, before unanimously agreeing to hike the budget.

Meanwhile, the estimated cost of the 1000-year bridge over Kaiti Beach Road appears to have more than doubled, with the council seeking $3.8m for it from the Government’s “shovel-ready” Covid-response initiative — explaining in a summary note that this was because “funding fell through due to the outbreak of Covid-19”, although $2.68m of Lottery money is still very much available for the project.

Was another funder lined up to cover cost overruns, then withdrew? Or was a mistake made and $3.8m more isn’t required? The CEO did not clarify this in response to questions from The Herald, instead saying: “We are still working through our options, however, it’s realistic that the bridge will require more funding . . .”

Just a note here for those who think the bridge itself could now be in question: the steel for it was purchased early last year, to avoid a predicted price increase.

So ratepayers are left hoping, along with the council, that the Government will be generous in picking up the bill for some council projects via its $3 billion Covid-response infrastructure initiative.

The most obvious candidate, fully consented and ready for shovels, is the Waipaoa Flood Control Scheme upgrade. Ironically, or perhaps typically, the council has $16.4m budgeted for this in its 2018-2028 Long-Term Plan but has since learned from updated modelling that the stopbanks need to be raised by up to twice as much. This and the discovery that inflation and staff project management costs were not originally factored in has seen the estimated cost rise to $32m-$35m.

Another candidate is the Olympic Pool Complex upgrade, for which the council is seeking $46m after new design concepts blew the $28.5m (only $5.65m of which is funded) figure in the 2018-2028 LTP.

OK, these are complex projects, but it seems we are being sold them based on incomplete and/or wishful thinking that returns to haunt us all.

GDC needs to learn from cost blowouts

by Clive Bibby

THURSDAY’S Budget announcement has the ability to significantly influence the way we do things as a community.

It remains to be seen whether our leaders are capable of recognising opportunities for restructuring that are being offered in this document, or if we will become collateral damage of former misplaced decisions that are now coming back to haunt us.

Today we have choices to make that will benefit a lot more people than the ones we had to make or were in the process of making even a week ago. However, to take advantage of this new environment will require an injection of common sense and a reduction in the current pandering to pressure groups that is endangering our future prosperity and “wellbeing”.

Unsurprisingly, the Government’s list for priority spending focuses on projects that will create (preferably) permanent jobs and, if those are not likely to result from strategic planning that is or should be in our spatial plan, then the next best thing — skills training programmes that will lead to the same outcome.

I have written at length in these columns bemoaning the failure of our council to take up government offers to kickstart parts of our economy that can only be restructured with that type of outside help.

My concern is that previous attempts to point out the need to reassess our own list of “shovel-ready” projects have had little effect on the mindset that has been locked in to satisfying the wishes of special interest groups at the expense of the greater good.

It will be interesting to see whether the council is prepared to revisit its list, given the Government’s expanded offer to provide the funds necessary to do things that are screaming for attention, and which have the capacity to make a real difference for this and future generations of Tairawhiti residents.

While skills training that will lead to real jobs in some of our more remote areas has been a subject of discussion for decades, ideas such as the plans to convert the Tokomaru Bay Shipping Company heritage building into an EIT outpost — that were well-designed, costed and supported by local communities — have been allowed to wither on the vines, and even been deliberately sabotaged by the groups who ironically would ultimately have benefited.

It beggars belief that the council could allow this to happen, especially when it was involved in the signing of an MoU that would have ensured the original project was completed within budget. For some reason the council abandoned that opportunity in favour of a limited project in the same vicinity that will deliver nothing in the form of much-needed skills training.

Similarly, the council has to date refused to support the opening up of the economically-dependent northern region, an idea that has been lying idle as a gift opportunity from the Regional Economic Development Minister, Shane Jones — seemingly because it was opposed by a small group of locally-influential residents who want things to remain as they are, with ratepayers forking out to keep them in the manner to which they have become accustomed. It is madness!

The council must see the folly of its lack of leadership with these issues and accept its responsibility to serve all citizens of this region.

We simply can’t afford to allow councillors to indulge their political fantasies in the form of support for projects that have no justification on economic grounds, but may ensure their individual and collective re-election.

We all make mistakes. Now is not the time to continue the process.

Budget offers new opportunities

Re: Ready to get moving again, May 14 editorial.

Oh goodness me, I didn’t read all of it because it says the same litany over and over. I have a grave dislike of contact tracing, it’s similar to facial recognition which was used illegally by police we found out a few days ago. It seems a little biased that I could attend a strip club from next week but I cannot attend my church. Strange standards to my mind. Also, the Ministry of Health which claims to “care” for the vulnerable elderly has not planned to reinstate their services. Seems to me they don’t give a jot for the older people, but they sure are easy to hang an excuse on.

ANNE BAULD

Grave dislike

I don’t like the idea of exposing my name and number on a piece of paper for other customers and the community to view. My phone number is private — shopkeepers should write it down behind a desk or in a computer.

JOVANNA

Keep it private

Let’s get the wastewater right . . . we do not need the swimming pool that’s right next to the Pacific Ocean and is potentially going to cost ratepayers $30 million-plus to update. There is a pool at Nelson Road which is probably better situated, re tsunami zones. And we definitely don’t need a bridge to nowhere to commemorate nothing that anyone is interested in. Come on GDC, get a grip.

H. HANNAM

Get a grip . . .

As the lines slowly shuffled forward, each person clutching their meagre bits and pieces, Viktor breathed in the acrid smell of unwashed bodies. There was more than a little fear in his feverish imagination.

Large notices were everywhere, with strips of black and yellow. The place was brightly lit. Up where the officials were gathered, a scuffle broke out and a shouting man was taken off by security people.

He neared where the documentation was being checked and people were being frisked with some sort of wand device. Viktor tried not to catch the

eye of the ever-vigilant attendants. Trouble was the last thing he wanted and he preferred to just melt into the background, if that were possible.

He reached the bench and after showing his pathetic collection of clothing and food, he tendered his documentation and had to make the demanded payment to avoid being held up. With mounting apprehension, he shambled past the guard controlling the exit and the guard said, “Have a nice day”.

How he hated shopping under Level 2!

RON TAYLOR

Fear in the Level 2 queue

Re: Odeon to remain closed for now, due to “postponement in major high-profile releases” (Herald, May 14).

Dare we hope that the owners will take this opportunity to improve the poor state of their two downstairs cinemas? They seem to be well overdue for airing, deep cleaning, sanitising and repairs to some of the seats.

Thankfully, being an older citizen, the films that generally appeal to me and

my friends screen upstairs in the very nice small theatres. However old, we still want to see some of the Big Box films like the Bond movies, Bohemian Rhapsody etc that screen in the bigger theatres due to their popularity.

No wish to offend, but the owners have both Covid-19 and Netflix as powerful competitors out there, so going to the movies needs to be an all-round attractive experience.

DIANE DOYLE

Upgrade opportunity?

The Eastland Group CEO is right (TGH May 1): “It’s been a tough time for everyone, but with one in four households in the region linked to forestry, the recovery of this industry will be vital for the recovery of the region as a whole.”

He exaggerates a little, though. I would like to know how he and his fellow Eastland Groupers found lockdown tough. No pay cut. No home detention with mum and the kids for many of them.

But I am afraid he is way off with his statement that “one in four households” are linked to forestry. The truth is every single household is affected in some way by the port log trade, just that most of us get what planners call

adverse-affects — roading costs, noise and danger.

The council is asleep at the wheel, or too close to the Eastland Group hierarchy.

Eastland Group and the council should start pushing for the rail fix — not the ridiculous multimillion-dollar bridge to nowhere now designed, in my opinion, to reinforce the unstable ground under the weight of the Te Maro sculpture.

Of course, there is no denying the primary purpose of the “bridge”. It will keep people from visiting Puhi Kai Iti — sometimes referred to as the Landing Place; the most historic place in New Zealand for two cultures.

WINSTON MORETON

We are all affected . . .

The Gisborne Herald • Saturday, May 16, 2020 OPINION 9

BRIEFS

Tear gas-flavoured ice cream HONG KONG — Tear gas is among the new

flavours at a Hong Kong ice cream shop. The main ingredient is black peppercorns, a reminder of the pungent, peppery rounds fired by police on the streets of the semi-autonomous Chinese city during months of demonstrations last year. “It tastes like tear gas. It feels difficult to breathe at first, and it’s really pungent and irritating. It makes me want to drink a lot of water immediately,” said customer Anita Wong, who experienced tear gas at a protest. “I think it’s a flashback that reminds me of how painful I felt in the movement, and that I shouldn’t forget.” The flavour is a sign of support for the pro-democracy movement, which is seeking to regain its momentum during the coronavirus pandemic, the shop’s owner said. He spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid repercussions from the pro-Beijing government. “We would like to make a flavour that reminds people that they still have to persist in the protest movement and don’t lose their passion,” he said. He tried different ingredients, including wasabi and mustard, in an effort to replicate the taste of tear gas. Black pepper, he said, came closest to tear gas with its throat-irritating effects. More than 16,000 rounds of tear gas were fired during the protests, according to Hong Kong authorities, many in densely populated districts where narrow streets are filled with small restaurants and apartment blocks. — AP

Rohingya refugee camps

confirm 1st Covid-19 caseDHAKA — The first coronavirus case has been

confirmed in the crowded camps for Rohingya refugees in southern Bangladesh, where more than 1 million are taking shelter. The infected Rohingya and a local Bangladeshi who lives in the Cox’s Bazar district who also tested positive have been isolated, Mahbub Alam Talukder, the country’s refugee commissioner, said on Thursday. Teams have been activated to treat the patients as well as trace people they may have encountered, Louise Donovan, a spokeswoman for the UN refugee agency, told The Associated Press. Aid workers have been warning of the potential for a serious outbreak if the virus spread into the densely populated camps. Donovan said that 108 Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar have been tested for the coronavirus since the beginning of April. With about 40,000 people per square kilometre living in plastic shacks side by side, the 34 camps have more than 40 times Bangladesh’s average population density. Each shack is barely 10 square metres and many are packed with up to 12 residents. — AP

Brazil’s health minister quitsBRAZIL — Brazil’s health minister has resigned

after less than a month in the job following disagreements over of the government’s handling of the country’s escalating coronavirus crisis. Nelson Teich had criticised a decree issued by President Jair Bolsonaro allowing gyms and beauty parlours to reopen. His predecessor was sacked after disagreeing with Mr Bolsonaro. The far-right president continues to oppose lockdown measures. He has downplayed the virus as “a little flu” and has said the spread of Covid-19 is inevitable, attracting global criticism. An official reason is yet to be given but Mr Teich is expected to give a media conference to explain. He has clashed with President Bolsonaro over several aspects of how the government has dealt with the spiralling epidemic. He disagreed with the president’s desire to widely use chloroquine as a treatment. The drug has gained widespread attention although the World Health Organisation (WHO) says there’s no definitive evidence it works. Mr Teich also butted heads with the president over plans to open up the economy, saying last week that he was not consulted ahead of an order that paved the way for gyms, beauty salons and hairdressers to reopen. But disagreements over how chloroquine should be used was the final straw, the Globo newspaper reported. He is second health minister to leave the post in under a month. Luiz Henrique Mandetta was fired in April after President Bolsonaro publicly criticised him for urging people to observe social distancing and stay indoors. Nelson Teich didn’t even last a month — and now Brazil is yet again without a health minister in a pandemic that people here feel is out of control. Despite the death toll soaring, Jair Bolsonaro is intent on ignoring the severity of the crisis. Since Teich took the job, there have been disagreements and Bolsonaro failed to consult the health ministry over his decision to re-open services such as the gyms and beauty salons. — BBC

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump expressed no concerns on Friday about a rapid coronavirus test that the White House has been relying on to ensure his safety, despite new data suggesting the test may return an inordinate share of false negatives.

Trump expressed his confidence in the test from Abbott Laboratories after a preliminary study by New York University researchers reported problems with it. Trump and his deputies have promoted the 15-minute test as a “game changer” and have been using it for weeks now to try to keep the White House complex safe.

The Food and Drug Administration announced late on Thursday it was investigating preliminary data suggesting the Abbott test can miss a large number of Covid-19 cases, falsely clearing infected patients.

“Abbott is a great test; it’s a very quick test,” Trump said at a Rose Garden event to highlight his administration’s efforts to develop a vaccine for the virus. “And it can always be very rapidly double-checked.”

The rapid swab is used daily at the White House to test Trump, key members of his staff as well as any visitor to the White House complex who comes in close proximity to the president or Vice President Mike Pence. The tests were also used to justify most White House staffers’ decisions not to wear masks until they were ordered to do so earlier this week.

“We’ve got to get to the bottom of it, but we still have confidence in the test or we wouldn’t have it on the market,” Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told Fox Business Network.

White House officials on Friday continued using the Abbot ID Now test. Reporters at the White House underwent the test before Trump’s Rose Garden

event. The president noted that the administration officials and staff around him, not all of whom were wearing masks, had also undergone testing Friday.

Trump, who also did not wear a mask, was asked why not everyone was wearing a face covering.

“I’ve been tested, we’ve all been tested and we’re quite a distance away, and we’re outdoors,” said Trump. “I told them I gave them the option they can wear it or not.”

Azar described the FDA warning as a routine announcement that comes after medical manufacturers submit any type of negative information about their product.

Trump has praised the Abbott test as “very quick, very good” and alluded to the tests helping keep him safe. The coronavirus test was quickly brought to market in late March, just weeks after Trump effectively called on the nation to lock down to try to slow the spread of the virus.

On Friday, Hahn said that if a person is suspected of having the disease caused by the coronavirus, “it might be worth, if the test is negative, getting a second confirmatory test. That’s what our guidance is about”.

Hahn, asked on CBS on Friday whether he’d continue to recommend using the test at the White House, said, “That will be a White House decision.” But he said

the test is on the market and the FDA continues to “recommend its use or to have it available for use.”

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said she had discussed the issue with Hahn and suggested some of the high false-negative results may have been the result of “user error.”

McEnany also cited the president’s daily test as a reason he chooses not to wear a mask.

Federal health officials have been alerting doctors to the potential inaccuracy in the test, which is used at thousands of hospitals, clinics and testing sites across the United States.

The FDA warning came a day after New York University researchers reported results suggesting Abbott’s test can miss up to half the infections caught by a rival test made by Cepheid.

The research has not been peer-reviewed or published in a medical journal and was based on about 100 patients.

The researchers found that Abbott’s test, run on the company’s portable ID NOW system, missed one-third of the infections caught by Cepheid’s test when swabs were stored in liquid used to transport laboratory samples. When the samples were kept dry the test missed 48 percent of the cases flagged by Cepheid’s test.

The researchers called the test’s performance “unacceptable,” due to the risk of falsely clearing patients who could spread the infection to others. They acknowledged shortcomings of the study, including the time needed to transport patient samples to the device for processing.

Abbott rejected the findings, saying the researchers used the test “in ways that it was not designed to be used.” — AP

‘Very good, very quick’

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Years of conflict, instability and poverty have left Somalia ill-equipped to handle a health crisis like the coronavirus pandemic. In fact, no one really knows how many cases of Covid-19 it has.

The uncertainty has led to fear, confusion and panic even after authorities have tried to keep the public informed about the outbreak.

The official count of cases is now above 1200, with 53 deaths, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.

But some aid groups — and even authorities leading the fight — have warned that official figures could be far too low in a country with one of the world’s weakest health systems after three decades of civil war and attacks by Islamic insurgents, as well as recurring humanitarian crises.

“We are not dismissing the fact that the death toll could be a lot higher than publicised,” Mohamed Mohamud Ali, the head of Somalia’s Covid-19 task force, told The Associated Press.

There is only one well-equipped quarantine facility for a population of more than 15 million people.

“Staff are reporting that people with symptoms are being told to stay home to save the limited health resources for those who become severely ill, showing that the official count is far off from reality,” said Richard Crothers, the International Rescue Committee’s country director, in remarks earlier this month. Others who think they are infected often are too scared to even

approach some clinics, adding to the unease in the population.

Mogadishu Mayor Omar Mohamud Mohamed touched off a panic early this month when he estimated almost 500 deaths in the capital in less than two weeks. Then, Somalia’s information minister, Mohamed Abdi Hayir, warned that everyone who dies would be referred to as a Covid-19 victim.

The health ministry quickly dismissed the remarks as “unproven” and “unsupported.” Still, Ali described the spread of the virus as “a speeding car with a failed brake.” About the only advantage Somalia might have is the relative youth of its population, he said. “Our capacity to deal with all cases in the country is limited, and we are afraid that trying to do so would make us overstretched, which could lead to negligence in handling the cases we have now,” Ali said.

Somalia’s plight is echoed in other war-shattered countries where a fragile corps of health workers faces overwhelming odds. “In places like Syria, Yemen and Libya, where healthcare infrastructure has been significantly damaged by ongoing conflict, mounting an effective response against Covid-19 poses an extremely difficult challenge,” the United Nations has said. Aid groups have warned that those seeking shelter from fighting in crowded, squalid camps could find little escape from the virus if it arrives.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has pleaded for a global ceasefire to allow exhausted health workers to better deal with

pandemic.In Somalia, restrictions on flights

and the difficulties of traveling in a country threatened by the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group have left large regions without easy access to basic aid, let alone intensive care facilities.

“It has been extremely difficult to access these areas with humanitarian support during this long period of restriction and lockdown,” the WHO said this week.

Residents of Beledweyne in central Somalia set up their own quarantine measures. “We cannot wait for the government any longer,” said Shafi’I Mohamed, a local infectious disease specialist. “We had to do something.”

Evacuating patients to the capital

“is not an option for now, since that could further contribute to the spread of the virus,” said Ali. But he urged communities to share information, saying authorities would still try to reach affected areas.

“Fear is the problem here,” he said. At Martini Hospital, the main facility treating Covid-19 patients in Mogadishu, healthcare workers have received little training, and they have raised concerns about their personal safety. One of its nurses died of the disease this week.

Meanwhile, workers in one of Mogadishu’s largest cemeteries are preparing for more funerals.Gravedigger Ali Dhere said they were burying 15-25 bodies a day, “and this has never happened before.” — AP

‘A speeding car with a failed brake’Fear and conflict leaves Somalia ill-equipped to combat virus

CRISIS IN ABUNDANCE: Mourners gather to bury an elderly man believed to have died of the coronavirus in Mogadishu, where there is only one well-equipped quarantine facility for a population of more than 15 million people. AP picture

Trump praises rapid Abbott test despite FDA warning

Trump and his deputies have promoted the 15-minute test as a “game changer” and have been using it to keep the White House complex safe.

The Gisborne Herald • Saturday, May 16, 202010 WORLD

WATERMAEL-BOITSFORT, Belgium — Something he saw as he drove to work one morning gave Tristan Van den Bosch an uplifting idea.

“I saw a man shouting at his mother,” said Van den Bosch.

Not unusual — except that the man was on the ground and his mother was three stories up. She was, like many seniors, locked down in a care home to avoid the Covid-19 virus. But as days have turned to weeks and months, families like this one have struggled.

“We can help this man,” Van den Bosch thought.

As operations manager at Group-f, a cleaning and maintenance company, Van den Bosch had a problem. The pandemic had reduced business to a trickle, leaving many of his cranes standing idle in the depot.

Why not use those cranes to lift people, so they can see relatives on the upper floors of homes for the aged?

Since then, Van den Bosch has been driving his cranes to homes in several towns across Belgium. A platform carries families to their relatives’ windows. A daughter or grandson waves, and worries vanish from faces creased by age. No internet connection does as well.

Eve Putseys didn’t quite know what to expect as she was lifted up to see her 88-year-old aunt, Suzanne, at the La Cambre care home on the outskirts of

Brussels. “It’s been seven long weeks since I’ve been able to see her,” she said. “It’s all quite emotional.”

Afterward, Putseys was all smiles.“I got to see her — and that was great,”

she said. And on top of that “she looked very happy to see me.”

The anxiety of families with relatives in nursing homes is well placed; of the 8843 confirmed and suspected cases who had died of the virus in Belgium as of Tuesday, 4538 were in such facilities. Their families are left feeling helpless, fearing they will not see each other again.

Little wonder Van den Bosch had little trouble filling his platforms for this special kind of joyride.

The La Cambre home prepared the facility, the families and the elderly to make sure everything went smoothly.

“It has been hard work but quite rewarding,” said La Cambre director Thibaut Chevrier. “We only saw emotions through the eyes of the residents and the families.”

Soon, Group-f officials expect, the platforms will again be used to clean up facades and office fronts. But in the meantime, they have been put to good use.

“Yes, OK, it costs money, the operators cost money but the machines are all used,” Van den Bosch said. And in the end, “we’re happy that we have been able to help people.” — AP

Uplifting ideaCranes reunite families in virus crisis

AP picture

NEW DELHI — On the last night of her life, my cat watched fireworks and flaming paper lanterns illuminate the dark New Delhi skies.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had asked India’s 1.3 billion people, living under the world’s largest lockdown, to turn lights off and place earthen lamps — the Hindu symbol of good over evil — on window ledges and balconies in solidarity against coronavirus.

In India, where holidays and festivals are marked by an excess of colour and light and sound, more is always better. So it was a fitting last home for a pet that lived in nine cities, in five countries on three continents.

In 2018, as I set out for a new job in India, my eight-year relationship ended. Friends and family worried: Will you be OK alone? I wasn’t alone, I told them. I had Little Kitty. When the lockdown was imposed, I told them the same.

Then, in April, she got very sick and died. My constant companion of 14 years was gone. The isolating constraints of a pandemic brought out the sharp contours of my solitude.

I found comfort in the many ways that New Delhi, a capital region of 29 million people, took care of its stray animals, whom I viewed even in normal times as the emotional balm for an anxious city.

When Modi announced a near-total lockdown, fear of hunger sent millions of migrant workers walking homeward toward villages hundreds of kilometres away. The informal businesses that drew throngs to the city streets — newspaper vendors, chaiwallahs (tea sellers), sidewalk barbers — disappeared overnight.

I reported about despair at a bus depot on the edge of Delhi, where hundreds of people waited to cross into the neighbouring states of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana, many with only a small bag of belongings. For weeks, the unemployed stood a metre apart in lines around city blocks for hot meals handed out at shuttered schools and temples.

With the disappearance of foot traffic, the animals, too, could starve. Instead, bands of volunteers fed Delhi’s army of street dogs, cats, wild birds and wandering cows, leaving plastic take-out bowls of kibble or rice on otherwise abandoned streets.

A love of animals cuts across India’s many religious, class and caste divisions. For Hindus, feeding animals is a form of worship. And caring for mine during the coronavirus crisis in

India felt like a prayer.The lockdown meant I could be home to nurse

my cat, feeding her chicken broth through a syringe. My sadness was mixed with gratitude that I could care for her after so

many years of companionship. Our veterinarian

made house calls, but not during the lockdown.

So for six days, I pleaded my case at checkpoints.

Dr. Gandhi’s clinic was reduced to skeletal staff in a single room. Clients crowded around sick animals. In the end, my cat died at home; I cried when I called to tell him that Little Kitty was gone.

Like many of India’s dead, animal and human, she would be cremated, because a fiery dissolution brings a swifter, more complete release of the soul.

Past the ancient settlement of Mehrauli, in an area of farms and well-appointed weekend homes, sat a gated complex with Hindu icons, aloe plants and a pink jacaranda tree. I removed my shoes and entered the prayer room — one wall covered in framed pet photos, and in the corner an altar with a statuette of Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction.

The gatekeeper laid my cat on a pushcart. He sprinkled sacred Ganges River water on her body, lit a cone of incense and said some words in Hindi.

We are all experiencing loss right now of a collective magnitude impossible to fathom. Mine, a tiny ripple in that cataclysm, was soothed by the ways that Delhi has continued to care for its own, human and animal alike. — AP

Coronavirus, loneliness and a difficult goodbye

PARAGUAY — Paraguay’s most honoured writer, Augusto Roa Bastos, called his homeland “an island surrounded by land,” and it so far has indeed seemed isolated from the worst of the coronavirus pandemic sweeping through neighbouring countries.

The nation of some 7 million people has recorded only 10 deaths as it shelters behind frontiers largely closed to guard against the illness, its once-busy border bridges empty save for a stray dog or two.

It has recorded fewer than 750 confirmed cases, most of those among people who were placed in mandatory quarantine for 14 days after entering from Brazil or Argentina. Some have been housed in military barracks, some in hotels.

Regularly scheduled flights have been cancelled as well, leaving just a few planes on humanitarian missions, often bringing home Paraguayans who had been stranded abroad, or carrying foreigners to their own homelands — all after having their

temperature checked.Paraguay was among the first in the

region to impose tight restrictions in March — telling people to stay home except to get food, medicine or medical care. Schools have long since closed. Churches are empty. Buses have been halted, forcing some to sleep where they work.

Still, many venture out to find something to eat, or the money to buy it. A few ignore quarantine restrictions to cast fishing lines into the Paraguay River.

Some line up for packages of food handed out at elementary schools. And some scrounge for what they can find in the trash bins of the central food distribution market in Asuncion, the capital.

The country has also been among the first to ease up.

As of May 4, the government allowed many businesses to resume. Builders once again set to work on projects — at least those in the open air. — AP

Paraguay a landlocked ‘island’ amid pandemic

FINDING SOLACE: Men fish on the shore of the Paraguay River during a lockdown to prevent spread of the new coronavirus in Lambare, Paraguay. AP picture

The Gisborne Herald • Saturday, May 16, 2020 WORLD 11

ISTANBUL — In a special section of Istanbul’s Baklaci cemetery set aside for Covid-19 victims, a gaggle of workers well outnumbered the three mourners — the maximum number of relatives allowed to attend the burial of Munevver Kaya.

Their unenviable task was to intervene and remind the bereaved of social-distancing rules whenever grief and the relentless urge for a friendly human touch overcame them.

Like elsewhere, the pandemic has changed the way Turks bury and mourn their dead.

On some occasions, funeral prayers have been held at the graveside instead of in mosques, as is the normal custom. Mourners must stand well-apart and wear masks.

Traditional “mevlit” ceremonies — a kind of wake held at the home of the deceased where a poem on the Prophet Muhammad is read — have also suffered due to the restrictions on gatherings.

Meanwhile, travel restrictions force many families to bury their loved ones in the place where they died, instead of taking the bodies back to hometowns or villages as decreed by tradition.

“On some occasions, we have buried the dead ourselves because no family or friends could be present,” explained Safak Cevirme, deputy head of the Istanbul Cemeteries Directorate.

Despite its high rate of coronavirus infections, Turkey’s death toll is relatively low and morgues have not been overwhelmed, unlike in other

hotspots such as Italy or Spain.Still, concerns over the safe

handling of Covid-19 victims’ bodies are high.

At Zincirlikuyu, one of Istanbul’s main morgues, officials who wash and prepare bodies for burial according to Islamic tradition wear hazmat suits and other protective equipment.

“We have always followed strict guidelines but overalls, goggles and face shields have now been added,” Cevirme said.

“Our personnel are among those under the highest risk of infection, after health workers.”

A number of morgue workers and burial officials in Istanbul were infected but all have recovered, he said, adding that all personnel are offered psychological support to cope with the strain. — AP

Changing traditions

UNCONVENTIONAL: Relatives of Munevver Kaya, who died of Covid-19, wore face masks for protection while they offered their prayers during a funeral at a special section of Baklaci cemetery in Istanbul, that is dedicated for Covid-19 victims. Only a handful of family members were able to attend the burial of Kaya. Wearing surgical masks, they stood apart from each other, vastly outnumbered by officials overseeing the funeral, due to the coronavirus pandemic. AP picture

Virus alters way Turks mourn their dead

LONDON — Matt Damon has described living in Ireland during the country’s coronavirus lockdown as like being in a “fairy tale” during a surprise radio interview.

The Hollywood star and his family were in Dublin, where he had been filming Ridley Scott’s “The Last Duel,” before travel restrictions were imposed worldwide. The family have been staying in the affluent Dalkey suburb, where

celebrities including Bono have homes, since filming was shut down.

Local residents have spotted the actor out and about, and local radio station SPIN 1038 tried for weeks to track him down and get him to come on air.

In an interview on Wednesday, Damon also revealed that his eldest daughter Alexia was diagnosed with Covid-19 while at college in New York, but she “got through it fine”.

“Obviously, what is going on in the world is horrible, but I’m with my whole family, I’ve got my kids,” he told SPIN 1038.

“Even in the lockdown, they’re like, ‘you have to stay within two kilometres of your house.’ Two kilometres here, there’s trees and forests and woods and ocean and I can’t think of any place you’d rather want to be in a two-kilometre radius of,” he said. “It feels a bit, you

know, like a fairy tale here.” Damon also praised Irish Prime

Minister Leo Varadkar, who is a qualified medical doctor, for working at hospitals one day a week.

“I mean, what a badass. That’s just on another level,” he said.

Damon said he and his family will return to Los Angeles to reunite with their eldest daughter when they can leave Ireland. — AP

CALGARY, Alberta — The Calgary Zoo will be returning two giant pandas on loan from China because a scarcity of flights due to Covid-19 has caused problems with getting enough fresh and tasty bamboo to feed them.

Er Shun and Da Mao arrived in Calgary in 2018 after spending five years at the Toronto Zoo and were to remain in the Alberta city until 2023.

The zoo’s president, Clement Lanthier, said on Thursday the facility spent months trying to overcome transportation barriers in acquiring fresh bamboo and decided it’s best for the animals to be in China, where their main food source is abundant. Bamboo is rare in Canada and they prefer only certain kinds.

“They are picky,” Lanthier said. “There’s a reason why they are endangered. They need their bamboo. That’s all they do. They eat bamboo and they sleep.”

Lanthier said the zoo had contingency plans for a steady supply of fresh bamboo, but limits on flights from China was the first problem. Transporting more from California added even more frustrations.

“Every 10 days there is more and more problem moving bamboo to Calgary. This risk is unacceptable,” he said.

“I cannot risk not being able to provide the best care to the panda every day. For other species there are options. For the panda it has to be freshly delivered twice

a week. It’s time for the panda to go back home.”

Lanthier said the animals didn’t like some of the bamboo they got from other parts of the US.

Giant pandas have unique nutritional requirements and 99 percent of their diet is made up of fresh bamboo. Each adult consumes about 40 kilograms daily. Lanthier said the news came as a bit of a shock to the Chinese government. In other locations where pandas are exhibited — such as France, Spain and parts of Asia — bamboo can be grown locally.

He said the pandas had been one of the biggest draws at the Calgary Zoo, but the decision wasn’t one about business.

There’s no date for when the pandas will return home but he hopes it will happen in the next couple of weeks. Lanthier doesn’t want the Canadian and Chinese governments to delay things. He expects to get an export permit next week.

“I hope they move swiftly. We need to move them to a place where bamboo is abundant,” he said. — AP

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As young Polish Jews, each came out of World War 2 with scars that forever shaped how they viewed the world, and each other.

One survived Auschwitz, a death march and starvation. The other endured cold and hunger in a Siberian labour camp, then nearly died in a pogrom back in Poland.

Alexander and Joseph Feingold chose New York City as the place to start over. It is where they became architects, lived blocks from each other and lost their wives days apart. It was there that they died four weeks apart, each alone, as the coronavirus pandemic gripped the city.

Joe, 97, died on April 15 of complications of Covid-19 at the same hospital where Alex, 95, succumbed to pneumonia on March 17.

Joseph Feingold never escaped the guilt of leaving his mother and two younger brothers to escape the Nazis.

When Alexander fell ill, Joseph called his stepdaughter from his assisted living facility and asked her to take him to his brother.

“Joe was wanting to go sit with Alex, to say goodbye and I think, too, to make amends,” Ame Gilbert recalled. “It broke me up having to say no, and having to explain to him that no one could visit because of the virus.”

The siblings were childhood rivals,

separated in age by only 18 months. As little boys playing in Warsaw, they pretended to be Native Americans. Firstborn Joe always got to be chief, he recalled in a memoir.

Their youth was shattered when Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939 and the Soviet Union seized Poland’s eastern half two weeks later. World War 2 had started. Joe was 16 and Alex not yet 15.

By the time they were in their early 20s, both brothers had witnessed the horrors of war. But only one bore a concentration camp tattoo on his arm. Joe had been the luckier of the two. Both brothers knew it.

Joe and their father, Aron, who was threatened with arrest by the Gestapo, fled to the Soviet-occupied part of Poland.

They were eventually arrested and sent to separate labour camps in Siberia. Conditions were harsh but improved later in the war and father and son were reunited.

Back in German-occupied Poland, Alex was forced into the Kielce ghetto with his mother,

Ruchele, and youngest brother, Henryk. One night, Nazi SS officers forced him and other male Jews into a field with shovels.

Alex thought he was digging his own grave. Instead, wagons unloaded hundreds of bodies, and the Germans ordered the terrified group with the shovels to search the dead for valuables. Alex used a bottle to knock gold fillings from teeth and buried bodies, going numb as the awful ritual repeated.

Ruchele and 13-year-old Henryk were deported to the Treblinka death camp. Alex ended up at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he saw corpses burned outside the gas chambers. He helped dismantle Allied bombs at the Buna subcamp in exchange for tobacco and extra food.

In January 1945, as the Soviets moved west, Alex was evacuated in a death march to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he was liberated on April 15. He was sick with dysentery and weighed just 40 kilos.

After the war, Joe and his father returned to Poland, where 90 percent of the country’s 3.3 million Jews perished in the Holocaust. Seeking information about the family’s fate, Joe returned to Kielce and was beaten unconscious and left for dead in the most deadly attack on Jews in postwar Poland.

Joseph Feingold was believed to be the last living survivor of that 1946 massacre, according to historian Joanna Tokarska-Bakir, author of “Cursed: A Social Portrait of the Kielce Pogrom”.

Joe and his father finally saw Alex again at a displaced person’s camp in

Germany, 19 months after the war ended. In an oral history with the USC Shoah Foundation, Alex recalled the reunion as a “sad moment”.

Alex’s trauma, according to Mark Feingold, the second of his own three sons, caused indelible injury and “made him less capable of being involved and recognised in society” than Joe.

When Mark Feingold took his father to Mt Sinai West Hospital in March, doctors assumed Alex had Covid-19. He tested negative, but the pandemic overshadowed his last days. A visit from Joe might have brought some comfort.

Shortly before his own death, Joseph dreamed he was in the gas chamber with his mother and Henryk, according to Gilbert, his stepdaughter.

“When Alex died and he didn’t have a chance to make peace with him, I thought ‘Oh, Joe’s going to die soon.’”

Joe’s eyes were closed as Gilbert said goodbye in a video call.

“I am choosing to believe that he heard that I loved him. I went through the list of all of those who loved him,” Gilbert said. “Hopefully, that gave him comfort.” — AP

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LIVES LOST: Brothers Alexander Feingold, left, and Joseph Feingold have died weeks apart at the same New York hospital. The brothers were Polish-born Holocaust survivors who had a difficult relationship shaped by the trauma of the war and the loss of their beloved mother and younger brother in Treblinka. The pandemic that gripped New York prevented a final farewell. AP picture

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AUCKLAND — It is essential for the health of people worldwide that a yet-to-be-discovered vaccine for Covid-19 is widely available, former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark says.

Clark told Morning Report yesterday there was growing concern that instead of a vaccine being available globally, it would become the monopoly of a very few wealthy countries and companies.

She has added her name to a letter from more than 140 prominent world leaders to Health Ministers at the World Health Assembly which is due to meet next week.

Reuters reported that France said yesterday that the world’s nations would have equal access to any novel coronavirus vaccine developed by pharmaceutical giant Sanofi, a day after the company’s chief executive suggested that Americans would likely be the first in line.

“A vaccine against the coronavirus should be a public product for the world,” French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said, adding that “equal access to all” was “non-negotiable”.

He was speaking after CEO Paul Hudson told Bloomberg News on Thursday: “The US government has the right to the largest preorder because it’s invested in taking the risk.”

However, Mr Hudson

apologised yesterday for that comment, saying it was vital that any coronavirus vaccine reached all regions.

Clark said the concept of a people’s vaccine is so that everyone, everywhere would be able to access it free of charge.

“Why is this so important?” Because the world’s leading virologists are telling us that without a vaccine we’ll never live normally again so there is such a compelling public health reason for getting this out to everyone everywhere.”

Clark wanted the profit

principle for any vaccine to be eliminated; a wonderful precedent had been set by the inventor of the polio vaccine, who said he had never wanted a cent out of it.

A lot of countries were already funding the development of vaccines, and with public money — such as the billions promised during an European Union virtual conference managed from Brussels recently, the intellectual property comes into the public domain, Clark said.

A global agreement was needed so that the health workforce and the vulnerable, including the elderly, could access the vaccine first.

“Ideally, you would establish a mandatory patent pool under the leadership of the World Health Organisation . . . governments of course can issue compulsory licences for the manufacture of drugs where there’s a compelling public health reason . . . there will need to be money mobilised from donors.

“But, basically, this needs to be manufactured at scale so that it can be available at very low cost to everyone, everywhere.”

There was a chance of achieving this because of a “nobody is safe until everyone is safe” attitude, Clark added.

NZ had been very successful in containing the effects of Covid-19 but it would now have to sit tight in its bubble until the rest of the world catches up. — Reuters, RNZ

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WELLINGTON — New Zealand yesterday afternoon recorded one new confirmed case of Covid-19, after three days in a row of no cases.

In a statement released yesterday afternoon, the Ministry of Health said the total number of confirmed and probable cases in New Zealand had risen to 1498, of which 1148 were confirmed.

Yesterday’s confirmed case was linked to the Marist College cluster in Auckland and was identified through recent follow-up testing of the school community.

The Ministry said the person who tested positive first had symptoms nearly two months ago and had a previous negative test.

The result was considered a ‘weak positive’ and the person, who has been in isolation through the lockdown period, was not considered infectious now.

There were no additional deaths.The ministry said 1421 people had

recovered from the coronavirus, which was up 10 on the day before.

This was 95 percent of all confirmed and probable cases.

There were therefore just 56 active cases across the country yesterday.

Two people were receiving hospital care — one in Auckland hospital and the other in Middlemore hospital.

Neither patients were in ICU.There were 7174 laboratory tests

processed on Thursday, which brought the total number of tests completed to 216,787.

The Ministry of Health did not hold a media conference yesterday.

Meanwhile, Marist College was still set to open on Monday, despite having had another confirmed Covid-19 case linked to its cluster yesterday.

Principal Raechelle Taulu said the school had confidence in the physical-distancing, hygiene and wellbeing measures that have been put in place.

Parents have also been told that the new confirmed case linked to the College would continue to stay at home as a precaution until they returned a negative test, despite being no longer deemed to be infectious.

Earlier this month, all Marist College students, staff and parents were offered free Covid-19 tests.

So far, more than 900 tests have been completed. — RNZ

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AUCKLAND — A South Auckland councillor is angry and disappointed by suspected arson attacks on cellphone towers in his ward.

Police were investigating after two fires in Otahuhu and Favona in the early hours of yesterday morning.

Towers were also damaged in Mangere earlier in the week, and another tower was damaged in Papatoetoe late

last month.Manukau ward councillor

Alf Filipaina says people have been ringing him about

the damage. “It’s so wrong! And I

guarantee the people vandalising these cell towers know (the distress they are causing) but they don’t care.

“What concerns me is that people won’t be able to ring in an emergency,” he said.

Telecommunications Forum chief executive Geoff Thorn said the suspected attacks were putting people’s

lives at risk. Mr Thorn said if cellphone towers were damaged, people might not be able to make emergency calls or connect with work, family and friends.

There have been reports of attacks against 5G towers internationally due to widely-debunked conspiracy theories linking telecommunications technology to illness. — RNZ

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THE primary sector’s response to the Covid-19 crisis over the past weeks has set it up well for the uncertain future ahead, and offers some opportunities that will be welcome by many in those sectors that have been hit hard by the global pandemic.

When New Zealand went into lockdown on March 25, the Government’s practical acknowledgement of the need for the farming sector to continue operating as normally as possible was welcome.

Now, as the country emerges to something closer to ‘normal’, the sector can quietly celebrate some wins over a particularly trying time.

Latest export figures covering part of the lockdown period from February 1 to late April highlight that primary exports pulled in nearly $8.2 billion over that time, a whopping $800 million more than the same period two years ago.

That figure included a healthy $6.2 billion of dairy exports and $890 million in fruit.

The figures had agriculture minister Damien O’Connor supporting the sector’s potential for pulling the economy out of a dire position.

“The latest provisional trade statistics show our apples and kiwifruit continue to be star performers, with $890 million of fruit exported between February 1 and April 22,” he said.

Investor attention is turning to the primary sector and the starring role it is likely to play in the coming months and years in the recovery. While always regarded as a key plank in New Zealand’s export earnings, that has been accentuated with the loss of tourism, a sector earning about $12 billion a year.

Bayleys lifestyle and country sales manager Matt Clutterbuck said he is getting strong enquiries from investors and orchard operators wanting to expand their kiwifruit holdings. This season’s performance has the sector viewed as well-positioned with a strong brand, good marketing and distribution and appealing returns.

“The sector recovered well from Psa and has responded well to the Covid-19 crisis, continuing to process fruit and ship to market.

“People are seeing this performance and we are getting more enquiries than ever for quality orchards throughout the region,” he said.

Zespri’s latest update on the sector is looking positive after nervousness early in the lockdown about how it would be able to harvest a bumper crop with the social-distancing constraints laid down.

However, by early May, packhouse processing was running well-ahead of previous years. Zespri reported it had shipped 32 million trays by the end of April, up more than 4 million trays on last year and almost 12 million trays ahead of 2018. This is coming with a crop that is estimated to be 5 percent ahead of last year’s.

Meanwhile, the forestry sector which took an early hit from Covid-19’s effect on China has had a healthy recovery as work got going again under Alert Level 3.

Dairying prospects are also looking healthy heading into the start of a new season. Food service sales were hit hard by the Covid-19 lockdown in China’s big cities, but provinces are on the road to recovery as those restrictions ease, with Fonterra anticipating sales tonnages will return close to normal over May and June.

Underscoring the positive prospects is the need to get more people engaged in the primary sector.

Dairying, horticulture and forestry are all seeking more workers for seasonal and longer-term jobs in the sector.

Covid-19 has further sharpened that need, with many migrant workers unable to make it to New Zealand for their seasonal jobs like pruning and harvesting.

O’Connor said there was no shortage of demand over the coming year for more workers and that New Zealand needed a skilled workforce to help the country seize the opportunities before it.

Estimates were the primary sector needed about 50,000 more people in a post Covid-19 world.

Bayleys national rural director Duncan Ross says the enduring value of primary sector investment is more appealing than ever in a global environment where interest rates are historically low, and stock markets are wracked with volatility and uncertainty.

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THE Matawhero saleyards were back in action yesterday with the first sheep sale since March 20 and store lamb prices were firm on recent paddock sales, in line with the Stortford Lodge prices on Thursday.

However, most of the offering were of medium body condition and size.

The smaller lambs were cheaper and may offer good profits if the international markets have stabilised by spring.

Woolly lambs were also being discounted. In total, there were 1615 sheep sold — 1478 were store lambs.

Jonathan Harris once again topped the prime lambs, with a pen of six heavy black-face making $148.

Best price for male store lambs was $107, paid for 86 from Kerley Agriculture Ltd at Kanakanaia.

Mataraoa Station at Hicks Bay received

best price of $86.50 for 194 store ewe lambs.

There was one pen of 70 mixed age ewes from Piritaha P/S at Ngatapa. These ewes fetched $120, were of medium body condition, had been mated to a terminal sire on January 15 and have been scanned in lamb at 160 percent.

Best prices — prime lambs: Jonathan Harris, 6, $148; Kerry Ellmers, 25, $136; Rotorua Sport Horses, 4, $125; Holmdale Farm — McBreen, 6, $122; Piritaha P/S, 4, $115; G Neilson, 12, $111. Store male lambs: Kerley Agriculture Ltd, 86, $107, 52, $100; Mataraoa Station, 65, $102.50, 84, $101, 19, $70; J.R and H.A Collier (Opotiki), 34, $80, 48, $72, 21, $56. Store ewe lambs: Mataraoa Station, 194, $86.50, 55, $73.50; Taeheke Station (Pehiri), 115, $90; Treble B Trust (Motu), 105, $80; 95, $61; J.R and H.A Collier, 123, $77, 138, $60, 16, $40.

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BACK TO NORMAL: The Matawhero sheep sale got under way yesterday, after being put on pause for the duration of Alert Levels 3 and 4. Picture by Liam Clayton

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With the ram either out or about to be put out across the district I thought it would be an appropriate time to talk about feeding the ewes.

Now, it is key to think long term for your farm about what the grass cover is at the critical time of the year to get through winter — for example, pasture cover of 1800kgDM/ha at the � rst of May.

With this target in mind, you should be able to plan your autumn and winter grazing plan to ensure your sheep and cattle are in optimal condition to ensure these animals have high lamb and calf survivability.

If feed is starting to look short, start to increase the ewe grazing rotation. ­ e length of rotation is dependent of pasture regrowth, which in turn is in� uenced by temperature, pasture species and grazing residuals.

Where practical, supplements can be used to help slow down the rotation. ­ e aim is to feed well-conditioned ewes at maintenance and at this time of year lower quality roughages such as meadow hay will do the job.

Higher quality supplements such as lucerne hay, grains or protein concentrates may be used for priority mobs (e.g. triplet bearing ewes) during the late pregnancy period when feed quality is more important.

Our recommendations for this time of year would be;

• Well-conditioned ewes (60-65kg ewes at 3-4 body condition score) to be fed maintenance 1.1-1.2 kgDM/day/ewe of good quality grass (i.e. predominately green and contains a reasonable amount of clover) – this feeding rate will increase on poorer quality grass.

• Preferentially feed light ewes at 1.3-1.5 kgDM/day/ewe of good quality grass.

• ­ ese animals need to recover condition to prevent them from absorbing foetuses and thus decreasing scanning and lambing percentages.

Placental development takes place between days 30 – 90 of gestation. So it is critical not to underfeed ewes during this period because this will lead to lower lamb birth weights and poor lamb survival.

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COVID-19 has dealt a devastating blow to the human race.

The so-called pillars of normal have been cut down and thrown aside and total disruption has spread across the globe.

Texas oil companies are paying customers to remove their product, all industries are facing years of no business. Unthinkable a few weeks ago.

Amongst all of this is the opportunity of a reset. A chance to change. A clean slate.

This is not a new situation to mankind, but a pandemic on this scale is new to all of us.

I’m feeling delighted that 20 years ago I made the call to build a more resilient mindset and to grow that into my personnel and business life.

I have learned mind skills that have me searching for solutions in a crisis.

As the old saying goes, “never let a good crisis go to waste”.

My most valuable life lessons have come from my challenges; the bigger the challenge the bigger the gain and I have developed the mind

set to “Bounce forward” from every setback. This means not rebuilding what was there, but making an improved version.

The biggest obstacle will come from a fear of change. The disruption of normal, whatever normal is. I remind myself FEAR has two meanings, Forget Everything And Run, or Face Everything And Rise.

Wellbeing is the result of managed knowledge. It’s the result of doing what is right to best manage the situation, whatever that may be.

Wellbeing is the accumulation of four factors essential to us humans. These are love, connection, purpose and hope. Covid-19 has the ability to destroy all or any of these pillars. So, the strategy needed to win the war is to push back against this attack.

In my years of helping people, one common factor among broken people is that they have lost one or more of these four factors; lost love, lost connection, lost purpose or lost hope.

Most of us can manage with the loss of one, some can manage with the loss of two, but virtually no one can cope with the loss of three pillars of wellbeing.

The pushback comes by us all being more loving, more empathetic, reaching out to people who are short on connection by being more

inclusive. Thousands face job losses or business failure and this creates a loss of purpose.

Collectively all those losses create the loss of hope.

I’m a company director, storyteller, author and once a farmer. I tell stories about my past; I tell stories about my current life and I tell stories of my future predictions. We are all storytellers; we all have a story to tell. In facing tomorrow ask yourself, what is your past story, what is your current story and most importantly, what is your future story?

What realistically could you be doing in two months, six months

and one year, that you don’t do now that would help build on your current situation?

Futurist Thomas Frey suggests, and I agree, “The future creates the present.” When you can see where you want to be in the future, your mind will transfer back to the present. What can I do now. . . how do I take the best shot to make my future dream come true?

Focus on your ability to control what you can influence, rather than wasting energy on factors you cannot control.

At times such as these, being easy on yourself is a great place

to start. Take small but directed steps on your journey. Keep the focus on the end goal — where do I want to be this time next year?

The human mind is capable of great things when it is calm and directed. Conversely, if disrupted and left free to worry and run free, it can be equally as destructive. So now is a good time to learn skills that can ease your mind. Practices like yoga, meditation, physical exercise, sport, mentoring and many other great activities.

We are all special individuals and we need to give ourselves credit for our individuality. Our methods of mind management will all be different, but the end game is the same. Emotional wellbeing is one of the greatest gifts of life.

Our so-called normal is now a thing of the past, fragmented by the disruption of Covid-19. We can either see this as a problem or an opportunity.

I see it as my job to solve problems and turn them into opportunities. All great journeys start from challenges. The bigger the challenge the greater the reward.

I have never seen a greater challenge than what we are facing now — with bigger opportunities to set a more resilient and sustainable future. We can do this. It’s time to ‘Bounce Forward’.

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THE Alliance Group has rewarded its farmer shareholders with a $4.5 million loyalty payment distribution.

The quarterly payments have been made to Alliance’s Platinum and Gold shareholders who supply 100 percent of their livestock to the company.

Farmers are paid an additional 10 cents per kilogram for each lamb, six cents/kg for a sheep, 8.5 cents/kg for cattle and 10 cents/kg for deer.

The payments cover the period January-March 2020. By committing all their livestock to the co-operative, Platinum and Gold shareholders also receive a range of other benefits,

including priority processing and free store stock facilitation.

David Surveyor, Alliance Group chief executive, said the co-operative was committed to recognising and rewarding consistent and committed supply.

“Our loyal shareholders have benefited from priority access to livestock processing at a time when the sector’s capacity has been affected by the Covid-19 operating

restrictions.“With New Zealand facing tough

times ahead, our farmers and the agriculture sector are helping lead the nation out of the Covid-19 crisis and underpinning the recovery.”

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‘ With New Zealand facing tough times ahead, our farmers and the agriculture sector are helping lead the nation out of the Covid-19 crisis and underpinning the recovery. ’ — David Surveyor

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The applicant must beentitled to become ashareholder in AraiMatawai. This appoint-ment is for a two-yearperiod with theobjective being thatduring those two yearsthe successful applicantwill participate in thegovernance aspects ofthe Incorporation. Acopy of the criteria willbe forwarded toapplicant on request.Please direct allenquiries to:

THE SECRETARYArai MatawaiIncorporation

BDO Gisborne LtdPO Box 169

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Phone (06) 869 1400Fax (06) 867 8533

Send a letter & CVsinto office no later than31 May 2020.

RIVERDALESCHOOL

Board of TrusteesBy-Election

Nominations are invitedfor the election of onestaff representative tothe board of trustees.A nomination form anda copy of the notice willbe posted to all eligiblevoters.Additional nominationforms can be obtainedfrom the school office.Nominations close atnoon on 29th May2020, and may be ac-companied by a signedcandidate’s statement.The voting roll is openfor inspection at theschool and can beviewed during normalschool hours.There will also be a listof candidates’ names, asthey come to hand, forinspection at the school.The poll closes at noonon 12th June 2020.SignedBev RamljakReturning Officer

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Rates instalment 4 is due for payment by Wednesday 20 May 2020.

If your household or business has been hit hard by Covid-19, we have rates relief options that might help you. See our website to apply.

The easiest way to pay your rates is by direct debit.

You can also pay online via the GDC website, by internet or phone banking or contact your bank directly for more payment options.

For all electronic payments, please quote the valuation number for each property as the reference.

Applications for a 2019/20 rates rebate of up to $640 close on 30 June. The form is on our website or contact customer services.

Sign up to get your rates invoices by email. Use the code on your invoice and go to www.gdc.govt.nz/enotices

ANNUAL GENERAL

MEETING WEDNESDAY,27th May, 2020

4.30pm Due to COVID-19, this year’s AGM will be held via Zoom. A link, as well as all relevant documentation will be sent to FINANCIAL members, 7 days prior.

1. Confirmation of

previous AGM Meeting minutes

Wednesday, 27th March, 2019

2. Matters Arising3. Adoption of Annual

Report4. Presentation of

Audited Accounts5. Election of

Representatives6. Changes to Trust

Deed/Constitution – change of Board structure and other items.

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FeesUnder Section 37 of the Dog Control Act 1996, the Gisborne District Council at its meeting on 19 February, set the dog control fees that apply from 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021.Owners are required to register their dogs by 31 July each year, due to Covid-19 this has been extended to31 August. A 25% penalty for late payment applies to all dogs registered after 1 September 2020.

Class/Type Cost in full/� rst registration

Urban & Rural Normal Pet $89Rural livelihood - working $48Selected Owner $63Selected Owner –Superannuitants $51Superannuitants $58NZ Licensed Owner $52Probationary Owner $132Guide and Hearing $0 Dangerous dog $134

All dogs, except working dogs, are required to be microchipped within 2 months of registration.

De-sexing discount – with proof from licensed veterinarian, a 10% discount may be applied to registration of all qualifying dogs paid by 31 August.

See our website for more details and criteria for registration types, or contact Customer Service. This notice is given under the Dog Control Act 1996.

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AppointmentsGISBORNE HOLDINGS LIMITED (GHL)

Council as a publicly accountable shareholder is seeking dynamic and diverse individuals to help build on and develop the Council’s commercial operations for its CCTO Gisborne Holdings Limited (GHL).

The role of GHL is to operate proitably and provide a non-rates income stream to Council – so that we can deliver better outcomes for the communities of Tairāwhiti–Gisborne.

To help achieve this we are looking to appoint two experienced board directors with strong commercial backgrounds.

The Council is working collaboratively with its CCTO to set the direction and investment strategy for the future. This is an exciting and challenging time to join the board in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the need to create sustainable economic opportunities for our region’s wellbeing.

You will have a strong public service ethos and demonstrated awareness and understanding of Council’s (and therefore GHL’s) commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. In addition to your commercial experience you will possess:

• sound professional judgement and decision making;

• strategic leadership and risk management experience;

• exceptional inancial experience and business skills; and

• strong networks, links and relationships to the communities, iwi and hapū of Te Tairāwhiti.

For 2020, Council will undertake two recruitment rounds, now and again in November 2020 to align with Council’s Board Appointment and Remuneration Policy. Two Directors retire as they have served beyond their three year terms. One Director has indicated their desire to re-apply. The second Director has served their maximum term of nine years and cannot seek reappointment.

We encourage anyone with an interest to apply. The term of appointment is for up to three years.

To express your interest in being a board member of GHL, please send your CV with a covering letter to heather.kohn@gdc.govt.nz before Monday 25 May 2020 at 4pm.

A Fact Sheet and Council’s Board Appointment and Remuneration Policy is available on Council’s websitewww.gdc.govt.nz or from Heather Kohn.

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TRUST TAIRĀWHITI

Kia hiwa rā, kia hiwa rā!

E rau rangatira mā, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou katoa. Tēnei te karanga kia tuku tono mai mō ngā tūranga hou o Te Tarati o Te Tairāwhiti.

The Gisborne District Council has the role of selecting and appointing trustees to Trust Tairāwhiti and we’re looking for new and dynamic Trustees to join the Trust Tairāwhiti whānau for a term of up to three years.

Trust Tairāwhiti – He aha ta tatou e pa ana. Trust Tairāwhiti –

what we’re about.

Trust Tairāwhiti’s vision is one of:

- Te Mana - Shared Pride- Te Ihi - Shared Prosperity- Te Wehi - Shared Opportunity.

Trust Tairāwhiti is committed to realising a shared vision for the future of Te Tairāwhiti by supporting our greatest taonga – our people. Investing in our innovators, our leaders and community visionaries who see challenges and opportunities is at the core of the Trust’s business.

Tātau tātau o Te Tairāwhiti.

Trust Tairāwhiti is the regional development trust for Te Tairāwhiti. Trust Tairāwhiti are the shareholders of Eastland Group and have around $666.1 million in total assets. Through the development of these assets the Trust invests in the wellbeing of our people to ensure the success of businesses and the future of our region.

Trust Tairāwhiti was established to:

1. Provide for the people of Gisborne (the bene� ciaries) by supporting business, community and other initiatives which are likely to encourage or sustain economic growth within the district, or may directly or indirectly bene� t the people of Gisborne; and

2. Preserve the value of the capital of the Trust fund.

For 2020, two Trustees retired by rotation. One retiring Trustee has indicated their desire to re-apply. The second Trustee does not wish to seek reappointment.

APPLICANT DESCRIPTION

Ideally you will have:

• a clear understanding of governance functions and principles;• an independent mind and be able to actively participate in

Board decision-making, including the ability to o� er sound professional judgement;

• a commercial perspective with strong � nancial experience and business skills;

• strong networks, links and relationships to the communities, iwi and hapū of Te Tairāwhiti.

In making this appointment, we will also be looking to ensure the right balance of diversity to add to the collective decision making is represented around the trust table.

Applications should include a cover letter and full Curriculum Vitae. Please label your application “Trust Tairāwhiti Appointment” and send electronically to Heather Kohn, Gisborne District Council, Heather.Kohn@gdc.govt.nz

Applications close Monday 25 May 2020 at 4pm.

A fact sheet, including further information as to the attributes required of Trustees, and Council’s Board Appointment and Remuneration Policy are available on the Gisborne District Council website (www.gdc.govt.nz) or from Heather Kohn.

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AUCKLAND — Small footprints quickly helped police narrow down who might be behind vandalism at two West Auckland schools over the weekend.

Two primary-school-aged youngsters have since been found to be responsible for wreaking havoc at Kelston Primary and Kelston Intermediate schools on Sunday afternoon.

Staff members were first alerted to the situation after a fire alarm was triggered at the primary school at 3.41pm.

Principal at Kelston Primary, Cliff Hughes, would arrive to find two classrooms and a dedicated deaf unit completely trashed — with windows smashed, doors damaged and items thrown everywhere.

The carpets were heavily damaged as paints and dyes had been tipped onto the floor.

The sinks were deliberately clogged up and the taps turned on — flooding the deaf unit and rendering the carpet in there completely useless for a classroom environment.

Hughes estimated between $7000 to

$8000 worth of damage had been done to their school alone.

“It’s been quite horrendous and it’s just been another hassle during the Covid-19 lockdown,” he said.

“It was just mindless vandalism. Things thrown around, smashed windows.

“Nothing was taken. There was just a whole lot of damage.”

Police said officers were notified of incidents at the two schools over the weekend.

“Two children have been identified as being responsible. Police have been speaking with the family and youth aid referrals have been made,” a spokesman said.

Hughes said police had informed them that the children involved were primary-school-aged, but were not students there.

Despite the massive damage, Hughes said the local community had rallied around both schools to help clean up and to make sure both would be ready for all students returning to school on Monday. — NZ Herald

Small footprints show children behind vandalism at Akld schools

WELLINGTON — A man has been sentenced to more than three years in jail for starting fires in the tinder-dry Tasman region.

Benjamin Durrant and Abigail Page were found guilty of lighting a fire on the Moutere Highway in late February last year.

The pair also lit another fire on Pigeon Valley Road in early March before being arrested.

That happened during a complete fire ban and weeks after a huge blaze started in Pigeon Valley.

Durrant had posed as a frightened resident and spoke to RNZ after one of the blazes.

Via video link from the High Court in Wellington, Justice Goddard sentenced Durrant, who started both fires, to three years and four months in jail.

Justice Goddard said the offending was serious and cost more than $200,000 to put out both fires.

He said it was lucky that precious fire fighting equipment was already nearby, but noted it had to be diverted from the huge Pigeon Valley fire.

Justice Goddard accepted Durrant’s offer of $2000 reparation and directed that be given to a family that suffered property damage from the Moutere Highway fire.

Page, who drove a car during both fires, was discharged without conviction. — RNZ

Man jailed for starting fires in Tasman region

by Mackenzie Smith, RNZ

WELLINGTON — An unapproved police trial of controversial facial recognition software conducted dozens of searches for suspects in New Zealand.

This week, RNZ revealed police did not have any of the necessary clearances from their bosses, the Government or the Privacy Commissioner to test American software Clearview AI. Police conducted a short trial between February and March, but decided not to use the technology.

Clearview, which is used by hundreds of law enforcement agencies in the United States and around the world, is effectively a searchable database of billions of images lifted from the internet that can easily identify people once their photos are uploaded.

During the New Zealand trial, a police team in the ‘high tech crime unit’ tested Clearview by uploading images of officers and suspects.

Police national manager of criminal investigations Tom Fitzgerald said its use was limited to about 150 searches of police volunteers, and roughly 30 searches of persons of interest. This only involved about five suspects, but each generated several searches.

Fitzgerald said police only got one successful match for a person whose photo was already in the media.

“We have proven Clearview didn’t work,” he said, adding that it would not be used in the future.

Official emails released to RNZ

show how police first used the technology: by submitting images of wanted people who police say looked “to be of Maori or Polynesian ethnicity”, as well as “Irish roof contractors”.

Fitzgerald said those people were targeted in part because they wanted to test if the software, like some other facial recognition systems, struggled to identify non-Europeans.

“The test included that and confirmed it didn’t work,” he said.

In its first contact with police in January, Clearview pitched its product as a solution to counter-terrorism.

Fitzgerald said as part of that pitch, the company claimed to have

made a successful match when it ran the photo of the Christchurch mosque attacker through its system.

“While our technology was not available at the time, this may help highlight how Clearview can be used for counter-terrorism to quickly and accurately identify suspects and build up investigations,” Marko Jukic, a Clearview employee, told police in an email obtained by RNZ.

Jukic was reportedly fired after it emerged he held controversial views.

Fitzgerald confirmed to RNZ that police understand Jukic is a member of the alt-right in the United States. He said this did not come up during due diligence checks on Clearview.

He said the police team undertaking the trial were well-meaning but in hindsight they should have sought approval first.

“I think they have all realised that it would be easier to do that earlier, before any conversation, rather than seeing if it’s fit for purpose first.”

Fitzgerald said facial recognition software still had the potential to assist police operations, but they were not actively considering any other options following the conclusion of the Clearview trial.

Andrew Chen, a researcher specialising in facial recognition at the University of Auckland, said it was not surprising Clearview was so ineffective for police.

“It’s still a US company, it’s largely looking at US sources. If New Zealanders aren’t in that dataset it’s not going to recognise New Zealanders very well.”

Facial recognition tech used without clearance

HIGH TECH: Police will not say what they used Clearview AI for in the trial, or who had access to it. AP picture

EVIDENCE: Primary school-aged children left behind footprints after vandalising two Auckland schools. Picture supplied

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SPECTACULAR LIGHT SHOW: The world’s tallest building was transformed into the world’s tallest donation box in a spectacular light show. Altogether 1.2 million individual lights illuminated the Burj Khalifa. Each represented a meal donated to the families across the United Arab Emirates impacted by the Covid-19 virus. AP picture

DUBAI — The world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, was transformed into the world’s tallest donation box in a spectacular light show to mark the United Arab Emirates (UAE) smashing its target of fundraising for 1.2 million meals or food parcels for individuals and families affected by the coronavirus outbreak in the country.

Launched as part of the 10 Million Meals campaign, the world’s tallest donation box enabled companies, organisations and members of the public to light up one of the 1.2 million individual lights on the facade of the iconic building in return for a donation.

Starting from the bottom of the 828-metre building, each light represented one meal or food parcel. As the final donation was made, the last of the 1.2 million lights was illuminated at the top of the tower, triggering a celebratory light show that could be seen for kilometres across the country.

The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives (MBRGI), in collaboration with Burj Khalifa, conceived the idea to support the nation’s ‘10 Million Meals’ campaign to raise donations to provide meals for hard-hit communities by the coronavirus pandemic across the country.

The campaign has already smashed its original target and the number of meals donated now stands at 14 million meals which equates to £23.3 million (NZ$47.5 million).

Standing tall at 828 metres, the iconic Burj Khalifa is the world’s tallest building, known for its unique architectural design. Inaugurated on January 4, 2010, the Burj Khalifa features 160 habitable levels, the most of any building in the world.

About 26,000 hand-cut glass panels make up its exterior, spanning over an impressive surface area equivalent to the size of about 17 football fields.

The telescopic spire, Burj Khalifa’s crowning feature comprising more than 4000 tonnes of structural steel, can be seen from 95km away in clear weather.

The MBRGI is a philanthropic organisation established in 2015, combining under its umbrella over 30 humanitarian and developmental initiatives and entities, most of which have been launched and supported by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, for more than 20 years. — AP

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No.33

Solution 32

B 20

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How good is your memory? Name the song and the singer or band

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Whoa! I feel nice/like sugar and spice70s

Wavin’ your banner all over the place80s

End up like a dog that’s been beat too much90s

He asked for a 13, but they drew a 3100s

Yes I’ve been black but when I come back you’ll know, know, know10s

Yeah we danced on table tops/And we took too many shots

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60s: A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, Bob Dylan70s: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Elton John80s: Buffalo Soldier, Bob Marley & The Wailers90s: Mambo No. 5, Lou Bega00s: Chasing Cars, Snow Patrol10s: We Found Love, Rihanna

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WELLINGTON — New Zealand shares fell as investors paused to digest the extra support from the government and Reserve Bank announced this week and what it means for the economy.

The S&P/NZX 50 Index fell 0.1 percent to 10,730.68. Within the index, 26 stocks rose, 17 fell and seven were unchanged. Turnover was $157 million.

This week saw the Reserve Bank announce it would buy up to $60 billion of central and local government bonds — almost doubling its quantitative easing programme — while Finance Minister Grant Robertson oversaw a budget pumping money into mitigating the fallout from Covid-19, including a $50 billion fund specifically for the response.

Yesterday, the local market was weaker, ignoring stronger leads from global equity markets, with lighter volumes relative to what’s been seen during the Covid-19 crisis.

Shane Solly, a portfolio manager at Harbour Asset Management, said investors were absorbing the changes to fiscal and monetary policy.

“There will be a time of digesting that stimulus,” he said. “There is a little bit of investors thinking ‘let’s just pause here’ and the market is pretty much flat on the day.”

With $20 billion of the Covid fund yet to be allocated, the full impact remains to be seen.

Adding to the caution were global concerns about new virus outbreaks in South Korea and Texas.

“Markets are wary about containment and this is a reminder we have a way to go,” he said.

Tourism Holdings led the market lower, falling 9.4 percent to $1.44. Solly said investors may have been hoping for more support for the tourism industry in Thursday’s budget announcement.

Air New Zealand was also weaker today, dropping 2 percent to $1.22. Auckland International Airport rose 0.2 percent to $5.70.

Meridian Energy declined 2.1 percent to $4.61 and Contact Energy fell 1.9 percent to $6.11.

Both released data yesterday showing national electricity demand in April fell by 13.7 percent compared to last year. However, demand has lifted strongly since the lockdown ended, with demand in the week ending May 10 being above the five-year average.

Fisher & Paykel Healthcare fell 1.9 percent to $30.50.

Freightways posted the day’s biggest gain, rising 5.2 percent to $7.25 off Thursday’s announcement they had secured new banking facilities coupled with activity picking up as the economy resumes.

Vista Group International rose 3.6 percent to $7.25, benefiting from its customers, cinema operators, returning to work this week throughout Australasia.

Similarly, SkyCity Entertainment Group increased 2.5 percent to $2.46 as investors anticipated activity getting underway again.

Pushpay Holdings continued to rally, up 2.5 percent at $7.02 on quieter volumes today, but still garnering support from the market.

Outside the benchmark index, Michael Hill International fell 2.8 percent to 35 cents after it announced it would not reopen nine of its 300 stores, with more closures likely. — BusinessDesk

SHAREMARKET YESTERDAY

TAURANGA — Homeowners could reap savings of up to $70 a week as banks slash fixed mortgage rates to record lows, but those who want to break loans may face hefty penalties.

First-home buyers hoping to nab a rate below 3 percent would also have to stump up a 20 percent deposit but those who used the windfall wisely to pay down their existing mortgage could save thousands and cut years off the term.

Banks including Kiwibank, ASB, Westpac and ANZ have started the price war competition, which has been welcomed by mortgage brokers.

Kiwibank general manager of product Nicole Pervan said its 2.99 percent fixed loan for one year had created a lot of interest. One third of its customers had a fixed rate expiring in the next six weeks or were on a variable rate.

An average loan size of $440,000 re-fixed would mean savings of $50 to $70 a week, she said, and those who could afford to put that back on their mortgage could make significant inroads.

“If customers can keep repayments the same, it will mean they can pay down their loan faster while also protecting them from interest rate rises in the future.”

ASB has cut its two-year fixed term rate to 2.99 percent, down from 3.49 percent.

Executive general manager retail banking, Craig Sims, told

NZME the reduced rate would help New Zealanders manage their home loans during what has been a challenging period, as well as support others into homeownership.

Westpac had followed suit with a two-year term. A spokesman said other rates cut included three, four and five-year terms to 3.39 percent, 3.49 percent and 3.59 percent respectively.

At the new 2.99 percent rate of interest a customer who made minimum repayments on a $300,000 loan with a 15-year term would save $141 a month, he said.

ANZ external communications corporate affairs senior manager Stefan Herrick said fixed-rate home loans gave customers certainty about their payments.

The bank had matched the 2.99 percent fixed for one year and he said those wanting to break mortgages would be subject to factors including the amount, number of days left and how much interest rates had moved.

He said for a loan balance of $380,000 over a 25-year loan term at 3.89 percent, one-year fixed in May 2019, the minimum weekly payments would have been about $460 a week.

If the customer refixes at 2.99 percent one year, the minimum weekly payments would be about $420 a week, saving $40 a week.

New Zealand Bankers’ Association chief executive Roger Beaumont said banks

operated in a very competitive environment and worked hard to attract and retain customers.

When the Reserve Bank lowered the official cash rate from 1 percent to 0.25 percent in March, that had an impact on retail interest rates, he said.

Beaumont said while the loan-to-value ratios had also been temporarily removed, banks would continue to lend responsibly and eligibility criteria would still apply.

Majesty Mortgage Brokers Tauranga director Luke Turner said people could lock in an interest rate 60 days before a loan came off its current term.

Generally speaking, he said it was not worth breaking a fixed-term loan because of the

associated costs as the fee would be about the same as the savings and most banks wanted the money up front.

Only about one in 10 first-home buyers had a 20 percent deposit so that was another “catch 22 scenario”.

Turner said he had been fielding plenty of inquiries during lockdown but, despite the LVRs being removed, “nothing has really changed yet and we are still waiting on clarity from the banks”.

Rapson Loans and Finance director Chris Rapson said it was inevitable banks would drop mortgage rates.

He was also an advocate for paying down your mortgage if you could “as rust never sleeps”.

“You know, if interest rates go up, then the lower the mortgage they’ve got, the better. Especially nowadays when mortgages are so high.”

Ownit Rotorua manager and registered financial adviser Hayley Hubbard said it would be a welcome relief for those coming off fixed interest rates.

“It will definitely be a help during this whole Covid-19 deal.”

First-home buyers able to take advantage of the rates would also benefit but Hubbard said her team liked to make sure their clients could service a rate over and above that.

She said Ownit continued to field queries during the lockdown about mortgage deferrals as people “could see a bit of light at the end of the tunnel”.

Now people were also re-accessing their situations, with many looking at buying instead of renting, she said.

Tauranga Budget Advisory Service manager Shirley McCombe said people needed to look at their complete financial situation before making a decision on their mortgage.

“For some families, an extra $40 to $70 per week means they can put food on the table or reduce other high-interest debt. If this is essentially extra money that they don’t need elsewhere, then increasing payments and shortening the term might be an option.”

“There is no one size fits all.” — NZ Herald

‘Light at the end of the tunnel’Record low mortgage rate could see homeowners save up to $70 a week

PERFECT TIME TO SLASH RATE: As major banks slashed mortgage rates, first-home buyers will be able to save thousands and cut years off the lending term. Picture supplied

WELLINGTON — After an initial round of applause for a well-balanced Budget, economists have delivered a sobering wake-up call to the Government about the challenge ahead.

“Unfortunately, we can’t help but feel that, especially relative to Treasury’s forecasts, all the risks to economic growth are to the downside, “ wrote BNZ chief economist Stephen Toplis.

That meant the Government’s eventual funding needs may eventually be even higher, he said. “Whatever the journey is that we are now on, (the) Budget highlighted that it will take us, and future generations, a long time to pay for the debts that we are now running up. And, boy, are those debts big.”

The Government has committed $62 billion for the recovery — around 20 percent of annual GDP.

Of this, around $26b had already been announced before the Budget, with another $16b unveiled on the day, and the remaining $20b still to allocated, Westpac economists noted.

The Government bond issuance programme was expanded to $190b over five years, compared to $42b in the Half-Year Update in

December. Net core Crown debt is expected to rise from around 20 percent to a peak of 53.6 percent of GDP, close to the record high that New Zealand reached in the early 1990s.

The big spending approach had risks, Westpac economist Michael Gordon said.

“New Zealand has long been staring down the barrel of massive increases in Government spending due to the aging population. That means future governments will either have to spend less or tax more, which could sap the economy’s dynamism.”

Most economists expected interest rates to remain low for some time but if they were to unexpectedly rise, “the debts being taken on today could become a very heavy burden to future taxpayers.”

Gordon also argues that Treasury’s forecasts are too optimistic on the long-run outlook.

“If Covid-19 scars the economy as we expect, the debts could be harder to repay,” he said.

The Budget package was “a big umbrella, but this crisis is a monsoon”, wrote ANZ chief economist Sharon Zollner, referencing Finance

Minister Grant Robertson’s line about this being the rainy day we have saved for.

“We think there’s more work to do and that tougher choices will need to be made,” she said.

“Getting out the cheque book is the easy part. Supply-side regulation, changes to tax settings, and reprioritising existing spending to ensure the taxpayer is getting maximum bang for its buck will be the real challenge.”

NZ Initiative chief executive Oliver Hartwich also highlighted the challenge for this Government to effectively execute its spending programmes.

“The Budget was heavy in numbers. A few hundred million here, a few billion here — there were big spending initiatives for everything,” he said.

“But it was light on demonstrating how these programmes will help repair the country. As KiwiBuild showed, good intentions plus government money do not automatically equate to success. But that lesson appears to have been forgotten and Budget 2020 is just KiwiBuild on steroids.” — NZ Herald

AUCKLAND — ASB is the latest bank to start phasing out cheques, which it says now account for less than 1 percent of its payments.

General manager of retail banking Craig Sims said the banking industry was phasing out cheques as more customers opt for digital payment options.

Kiwibank stopped accepting cheques in February, and Inland Revenue and ACC did the same in March.

Sims said the bank had not yet finalised timing, as it wanted to give its customers time to adjust.

“We will give our customers plenty of notice before we make this change, and over the transition period we will work closely with those who still use cheques to help them work through other payment options, and ensure they are comfortable with this change.” — RNZ

ASB to phase out use of cheques

Economists deliver post-Budget hangover

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G-LGeneral Capital Ltd .08 - .09 .05 .03 .00 - 310.71GenesisEgy 2.87 +.03 3.77 1.99 1.66 .01 7.81 151.89Gentrack Grp 1.45 -.03 6.59 .76 .02 -.03 7.66 -GEO .05 -.00 .12 .02 -.01 .10 - .57GFNZ Grp Ltd Ord .45 - .65 .34 .32 .04 7.69 9.7Good Spirits Ltd .09 -.00 .15 .04 -.37 .00 - 24.44Goodman Prop Tst 2.26 +.04 2.52 1.72 1.72 .37 3.47 6.07Green Cross Health 1.05 -.03 1.39 .96 -.10 .10 9.26 10.05Hallenstein Glasson 4.00 +.18 6.48 1.80 1.27 .46 8.33 8.52Heartland Grp Holding 1.14 +.01 1.93 .89 1.05 .14 13.40 8.1Hendrsn Far East 6.51 - 7.55 5.55 6.11 .07 6.95 91.45ikeGPS Grp .64 -.06 .96 .48 .06 -.04 - -Infratil 4.63 +.12 5.65 3.00 2.93 .02 4.48 157.64Investore 1.69 -.01 2.00 1.35 1.70 .15 5.68 11.11JPMorg GlobGrth 6.36 +.17 7.35 4.99 6.14 1.32 4.01 4.81Just Life Group .46 - .79 .33 .21 .02 9.56 17.37Kathmandu .92 +.14 2.54 .48 -.13 .16 15.68 5.73Kingfish 1.53 +.01 1.76 1.05 1.52 .16 8.78 9.32Kiwi Prop .93 -.03 1.70 .74 1.42 .08 9.53 10.55

M-OMainfreight 36.15 -.34 43.99 24.00 6.50 1.40 2.27 25.81Marlin Global .93 - 1.12 .69 .97 .25 8.75 3.69Marsden Mari 6.45 -.14 7.19 5.25 3.39 .25 3.45 25MarWineEst .20 +.00 .24 .19 .04 -.00 - -Me Today .08 -.00 .11 .00 .02 -.00 - -Mercer Group .27 - .30 .15 -.02 -.01 - -Mercury NZ 4.80 +.38 5.62 3.59 2.50 .24 4.54 19.46Meridian Energy 4.70 +.36 5.80 3.61 1.97 .14 5.70 31.87Metlifecare 4.28 +.04 6.94 3.16 7.00 .18 1.69 23.19Metro Perf Glass .17 - .47 .15 .08 .01 - 8.69Michael Hill .35 - .76 .23 .42 .04 4.39 7.88Millennm&Copthrn 1.78 -.02 2.84 1.77 4.52 .47 5.85 3.78Moa Ord Shrs .18 +.01 .39 .09 .29 -.04 - -Napier Port 3.07 -.05 4.28 2.51 1.67 .03 1.13 89.61New Talisman .00 +.00 .01 .00 .00 -.00 - -NZ King Salmn 1.96 -.02 2.60 1.29 .99 .12 3.54 15.95NZ Oil & Gas .51 +.01 .73 .43 .84 -.01 - -NZ Refining Co .87 -.05 2.20 .62 2.36 .01 3.19 65.29NZME Ltd .21 - .58 .17 -.17 -.84 - -NZX Limited 1.28 +.01 1.48 .92 -.01 .05 6.62 23.97OceaniaHlth .75 - 1.39 .38 1.01 .06 6.53 11.24

P-SPacific Edge .11 +.01 .25 .06 .00 -.03 - -PaySauce .47 -.00 1.31 .36 -.01 -.02 - -PGG Wrightson 2.69 -.01 2.74 1.55 1.96 1.07 8.52 2.49Plexure Group .68 +.03 1.20 .37 .08 -.00 - -PLP Fund 1.04 +.00 1.08 1.01 1.04 - 3.17 -Port of Tauranga 6.95 +.20 8.08 4.90 1.66 .14 3.66 47.32Precinct Prop 1.50 -.03 1.95 1.44 1.48 .16 4.39 8.93Promisia .00 - .00 .00 -.00 -.00 - -Prop For Ind 2.21 -.02 2.59 1.60 2.05 .35 4.63 6.25PushpayHld 6.43 +2.23 6.46 2.36 -.32 .09 - 66.56QEX .65 -.19 1.17 .50 .21 .01 - 34.27Rakon .23 +.01 .33 .15 .36 .01 - 19.67RestaurantBrands 12.70 +.46 14.13 6.47 -3.48 .24 - 52.65Ryman Health 12.14 +.21 17.20 6.61 4.52 .68 1.93 17.61Sanford 7.08 +.08 8.20 5.55 1.00 .44 4.51 15.89Scales Corp 4.90 +.02 5.45 3.30 2.19 .83 5.39 5.87Scott Tech 1.84 +.28 2.73 .81 .32 -.12 2.66 -SeaDragon .05 +.00 .30 .04 .20 -.17 - -Seeka Kiwifruit 4.50 +.12 5.25 3.40 4.55 .21 3.70 20.48Serko Ltd 2.52 - 5.80 .87 .11 -.00 - -Skellerup 1.97 +.03 2.52 1.37 .61 .14 7.88 13.84Sky Network .32 +.03 1.30 .19 -.20 -1.61 - -SKYCITYEnt 2.49 -.06 4.15 1.14 .91 .57 11.16 4.31Smartpay .46 +.07 .76 .16 -.10 -.01 - -Smartshr APAC 1.93 -.03 2.23 1.65 1.91 - 1.61 -Smartshr AU 20 3.25 +.04 4.21 2.65 3.22 - 3.89 -Smartshr AU Div 1.34 +.01 1.76 1.05 1.32 - 4.18 -Smartshr AU Fin 5.08 +.01 7.95 4.17 5.02 - 6.61 -Smartshr AU Mid 6.27 +.30 7.72 4.32 6.18 - 2.76 -Smartshr AU Prp 1.16 +.01 1.75 .91 1.15 - 5.34 -Smartshr AU Res 4.28 +.17 5.44 3.23 4.22 - 3.13 -Smartshr Auto 3.09 -.03 3.39 2.35 3.05 - - -Smartshr Emr 1.19 -.02 1.44 1.02 1.18 - 1.54 -Smartshr Emr Equ 1.92 -.06 2.29 1.73 1.92 - - -Smartshr EU 1.50 -.02 1.86 1.24 1.48 - 2.74 -Smartshr EU Equ 2.16 -.05 2.63 1.87 2.14 - - -Smartshr Glo Agr 1.36 -.00 1.41 1.29 1.35 - 1.71 -Smartshr Glo Bond 3.26 -.00 3.33 3.04 3.26 - 1.84 -Smartshr Glo Equ 2.06 -.03 2.36 1.72 2.04 - - -Smartshr Health 2.80 +.04 2.84 2.05 2.78 - - -Smartshr JP Equ 1.87 -.04 2.11 1.60 1.87 - - -Smartshr NZ Bond 3.14 +.01 3.14 3.00 3.14 - 3.30 -Smartshr NZ Cash 2.96 -.00 2.99 2.87 2.96 - 2.72 -Smartshr NZ Div 1.07 +.01 1.43 .83 1.06 - 6.79 -Smartshr NZ Prp 1.22 -.01 1.57 .96 1.22 - 4.61 -Smartshr US 500 8.68 -.11 9.82 7.12 8.67 - .56 -Smartshr US Equ 2.20 -.01 2.48 1.80 2.20 - - -Smartshr US Grow 5.89 +.08 6.26 4.52 5.84 - - -Smartshr US Mid 4.88 -.05 5.87 3.94 4.85 - - -Smartshr US Sml 4.26 -.07 5.37 3.41 4.24 - - -Smartshr US Val 3.15 -.12 3.84 2.67 3.16 - 1.18 -Smartshr World 2.26 -.04 2.65 1.90 2.25 - .91 -Smiths City .12 -.00 .31 .10 .67 -.07 - -SnakkMedia .05 - - - .04 - - -Snr Trst Ret Vill 1.00 +.02 1.01 .86 1.01 - 6.50 -South Port NZ 6.69 -.01 7.94 5.50 1.63 .37 5.40 17.92Spark NZ 4.60 +.25 4.93 3.44 .22 .23 7.02 19.97Steel & Tube .62 -.04 1.24 .47 1.11 -.19 3.36 -Sthn Charter .00 - - - .00 -.00 - -Stride 1.51 -.03 2.45 1.18 1.97 .20 8.29 7.52Summrst Grp HldLtd 6.00 +.07 9.30 3.36 5.02 .77 2.35 7.74Synlait Milk Ltd (NS) 7.20 +.34 10.59 4.36 2.66 .39 - 18.15

T-ZT&G Global 2.67 -.03 2.97 2.35 3.56 .05 - 49.49Telstra 3.26 +.05 4.19 2.97 .65 .18 5.16 18Templeton 14.39 -.44 17.26 11.77 16.21 1.44 2.54 9.99TIL Logist .65 -.03 1.40 .57 .10 -.02 5.34 -Tilt Renew 3.16 +.01 3.45 2.28 1.46 .04 - 76.8Tourism Holdings 1.60 +.32 4.34 .55 1.83 .18 10.45 8.59Tower .64 +.01 .77 .53 .53 .04 - 13.54TRS Investments .00 - .00 .00 -.00 -.00 - -TruScreen .06 -.00 .14 .05 .01 -.01 - -TrustPower 7.06 +.59 8.65 4.50 3.72 .20 8.81 34.01Turners Auto 1.66 -.02 2.93 1.13 .75 .23 10.88 7.07Vector 3.62 +.03 3.98 2.95 1.01 .07 5.71 45.29Vista Group 1.25 +.06 5.96 .85 .36 .06 1.27 20.16Vital Healthcare 2.32 -.05 2.97 1.90 2.36 .28 4.50 8.08VTL Group .70 - .92 .54 .59 .06 5.95 10.89Warehouse Group 2.18 +.02 2.96 1.48 .66 .17 5.10 12.71Wellington Drive .11 -.00 .24 .08 .00 .00 - 73.86Westpac 16.67 -.10 32.39 14.11 15.82 1.39 11.97 11.92Z Energy 3.14 +.09 6.85 2.50 .06 .18 20.79 17.21

Exchange Traded FundsSmartshr AU 20 3.25 +.04 4.21 2.65 3.22 - 3.89 -

Smartshr NZ 10 1.95 +.03 2.12 1.48 1.94 - 3.17 -

Smartshr NZ 50 2.74 +.05 3.24 2.05 2.72 - 4.09 -

Smartshr NZ Mid 5.04 +.11 6.20 3.78 5.00 - 4.34 -

MONDAY-TO-FRIDAY OFFICIAL MARKET STATISTICS

New Zealand Australia

A2 Milk 18.17 +.22 19.23 11.28 - - 43.73Afterpay 39.88 +10.72 41.14 8.01 - - -AGLEgy 16.49 +.07 23.00 15.15 47 6.77 11.42Altium 36.35 +3.32 42.76 23.11 20 1.05 62.77Alumina 1.525 -.10 2.51 1.29 5.55 7.65 14.96Amcor 13.38 -.15 16.74 9.87 17.1 5.17 31.91AMP 1.41 +.065 2.28 1.08 4 2.93 -Ansell 30.24 +2.05 33.43 20.19 32.88 2.38 20.1ANZ Bank 15.73 -.02 29.30 14.10 80 10.09 10.37APAGroup 11.26 +.56 11.85 8.06 23 4.37 42.9Argo 7.17 -.03 9.11 5.44 16 4.58 20.22Aristocrt 24.98 +.88 38.23 14.81 34 2.24 22.81ASX Ltd 82.30 +2.53 88.31 63.02 116.4 2.85 31.6AtlasArt 5.85 +.05 8.54 3.51 15 5.11 -AuckAirpt 5.35 -.23 9.45 4.17 10.50 3.90 12.98Aurizon 4.49 -.02 6.11 3.38 13.7 5.70 15.07AusFound 5.73 -.07 7.32 4.77 10 4.20 17.73AusNet Srvcs 1.955 +.115 1.99 1.46 5.1 5.11 29.24BHP Group 31.40 +1.56 42.33 24.05 99.40 6.87 11.68Biotron .095 -.001 .18 .05 - - -Bluescope 10.07 +.47 16.17 8.03 6 1.39 9.08Brambles 10.58 +.09 13.42 8.97 13.38 2.62 8.31Caltex 24.50 +1.10 35.96 18.32 51 3.41 16.09CBA 59.60 +.76 91.05 53.44 200 7.27 10.34Cimic 23.03 -.55 48.97 11.87 71 6.77 -Cleanaway 1.88 +.09 2.52 1.39 2 2.14 34.43Coca-Cola 8.66 +.55 13.18 7.77 26 5.59 16.27Cochlear 181.66 +1.71 254.40 154.60 160 1.82 34.85ColesGrp 15.20 +.06 18.09 12.21 30 - 17.12Compshare 11.43 +.13 18.59 8.27 23 4.03 15.36Crown Ltd 9.34 -.09 13.47 5.84 30 6.55 13.94CSL Ltd 301.18 +2.42 342.75 195.15 147.12 .95 48.58Dexus 8.85 +.04 13.96 8.03 27 5.75 6.05Dominos 56.95 +.94 66.19 35.29 66.7 2.10 37.05Evolution 5.39 +.67 5.58 3.06 7 2.42 33.31FirstwaveC .075 +.004 .34 .06 - - -Fis&PayHc 28.00 +1.46 31.47 14.00 11.48 .88 70.91Fortescue 12.04 +1.06 12.87 6.59 76 8.73 4.95GoodGrp 14.36 +1.41 16.78 9.60 15 2.13 17GPTGroup 4.01 +.20 6.50 2.82 13.37 6.84 8.25Harvey 3.03 +.36 4.87 2.32 12 11.62 8.65IAG 5.28 -.32 8.74 5.00 10 5.66 14.24IDP Education 15.42 +1.32 25.17 9.90 16.5 1.58 46.26JB Hi-Fi 35.26 +.93 46.09 20.79 99 4.41 15JHardie 21.63 +.93 33.42 12.54 11.74 1.94 24.62LendLease 11.22 -.32 19.95 9.34 30 5.31 8.31MacqGroup 105.19 +8.27 152.35 70.45 250 6.13 10.76MagellanF 55.00 +6.97 74.91 30.10 92.9 3.85 23.77Medibank 2.83 +.18 3.65 2.45 5.7 4.60 18.15MercuryNZ 4.50 +.29 5.44 3.52 6.34 3.49 18.1MeridianEn 4.40 +.20 5.51 3.49 7.42 3.41 29.91MirvacGrp 2.19 +.12 3.52 1.65 6.1 5.69 8.48NAB 16.08 -.06 30.00 13.19 30 6.97 14Newcrest 27.60 +2.45 38.87 20.70 11.35 1.18 26.73Nextdc 9.56 +.61 10.40 5.71 - - -NthStar 13.03 +1.28 15.28 8.08 7.5 1.17 41.42OilSearch 2.87 +.04 7.91 1.80 6.79 4.92 9.81Orica Ltd 16.26 -.63 24.27 13.25 33 3.28 25.98OriginEgy 5.53 +.26 8.89 3.75 15 5.42 9.62QantasAir 3.40 -.22 7.46 2.03 13.5 7.66 6.48QBE 7.56 -.26 15.19 7.13 27 6.92 12.59Qube Hold 2.52 +.31 3.57 1.67 2.9 2.32 21.37Ramsay 60.91 -1.47 80.93 46.12 62.5 2.48 23.9Rea Group 95.17 +10.17 117.30 62.05 55 1.34 46.5ReeceAus 8.21 -.18 11.91 7.70 6 2.48 21.85Resmed 24.81 +.65 26.66 15.85 4.15 .65 55.1Rio Tinto 83.00 +.41 107.79 72.77 349.74 6.98 11.62Santos 4.85 +.29 9.07 2.73 7.56 3.45 10.29Saracen 4.46 +.49 4.73 2.66 - - 31.12Scentre 2.20 +.10 4.15 1.35 11.3 10.66 9.51SeekComm 17.41 +.74 24.09 11.23 13 2.07 38.04SevenGrp 14.11 +.05 21.96 8.92 21 3.00 24.16SonicHlth 25.90 -.40 32.07 20.06 34 3.29 20.85Soul Pat 17.74 +.08 23.53 16.66 25 3.30 35.71South 32 1.85 -.035 3.52 1.58 3.34 3.09 -Spark NZ 4.27 +.20 4.72 3.35 11.88 5.19 18.85Stockland 2.74 +.13 5.47 1.72 13.5 10.07 12.57Suncorp 8.91 +.38 14.15 7.30 26 7.98 19.77SydAirprt 5.45 -.30 9.30 4.37 19.5 7.20 30.3Tabcorp 3.14 +.06 4.98 2.09 11 7.01 16.81TelstraCp 3.03 +.04 3.94 2.87 8 3.27 17.69TPGTeleco 7.26 +.20 8.78 5.94 3 .69 24.74Transurban 13.60 +.34 16.44 9.10 31 4.55 165.68TreasryWine 9.84 +.39 19.47 8.40 20 4.04 17.29VangrdASI 68.51 +1.51 91.30 56.28 67.26 4.83 314.94VicinityCtr 1.43 +.06 2.72 .90 7.7 11.51 14.48Wesfarmrs 37.45 +1.12 47.41 29.75 75 4.20 18.87WestpacB 15.51 +.17 30.05 13.47 80 11.15 11.35Wisetech 19.91 +2.09 38.80 9.97 1.7 .18 69.41Woodside 21.89 +.76 37.55 14.93 83.13 6.30 41.33Woolwrths 34.70 +.25 43.96 31.02 46 2.95 17.28Worley 8.56 +.28 16.45 4.63 25 4.72 24.41Xero Ltd 82.30 +4.80 90.22 52.20 - - 5822.7

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Kathmandu 27,548,800BLIS Tech 19,175,800Air NZ 18,183,400Spark NZ 13,642,400New Talisman 12,718,000OceaniaHlth 11,518,400AuckAirport 11,250,900PushpayHld 10,551,700Kiwi Prop 9,060,300TruScreen 7,278,400

Fishr&Paykl Health 112,937,800AuckAirport 64,976,300Spark NZ 61,070,500PushpayHld 58,760,300a2 Milk 51,116,200Contact Energy 33,793,500Mainfreight 28,103,100Fletcher Building 25,145,300Kathmandu 24,490,800Meridian Energy 23,580,800

PushpayHld 53.0952Tourism Holdings 25.00Kathmandu 17.9487Scott Tech 17.9487Smartpay 17.9487Comvita 13.6364Sky Network 12.2807TrustPower 9.119Mercury NZ 8.5973Meridian Energy 8.2949

QEX 22.619Augusta Cap 10.00ikeGPS Grp 8.5714Steel & Tube 6.0606NZ Refining Co 5.4348AWF Madison 5.1948CDL Inv 5.0633Fletcher Building 5.0279AuckAirport 4.698TIL Logist 4.4118

Auckland greys at Manukau Sunday 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 The Manukau Sportsbowl 12.10 $1450, C1, 318m

1 42228 Fancy 19.00 M Prangley

2 35216 Botany Sandy 18.86 Phil Green

3 F4731 Forego nwtd Greg Pomeroy

4 7788s Yella Ella 18.58 R & L Udy

5 66868 Smash Burton 19.12 R & L Udy

6 42333 Tamantha 19.04 Bob Bond

7 63348 Dignity Dented nwtd Thayne Green

8 83164 Opawa Gonzo 18.78 Glennis Farrell

EMERGENCIES:

9 77756 Unconscionable 18.61 R & L Udy

10 87755 Just Maddie nwtd Marsha Black

2 Trophies Plus Sprint 12.30 $1365, C0, 318m

1 88865 Rowdy Ratbag nwtd Marsha Black 2 52s36 Grindelwald nwtd Emma Potts 3 s5877 Mrs. Opal nwtd R & N O’Regan 4 33F Attila’s Arrow nwtd Howard Scott 5 882 Wild Kiwi nwtd Udy & Cottam 6 85466 Xena Poppy nwtd R & L Udy 7 46 Hillbilly Brewed nwtd Howard Scott 8 42322 Nana Molly nwtd Udy & CottamEMERGENCIES: 9 67F87 Loudred nwtd M Prangley 10 64758 Riccitelli nwtd Marsha Black

3 Mayhounds Retirement Project 12.50 $1450, C1, 318m

1 88787 Tilly’s Silly 18.95 R & L Udy 2 75s24 Tango Miss 18.73 Thayne Green 3 47641 Bailey And Cream 18.81 R & L Udy 4 64543 Choo Choo 18.65 Glennis Farrell 5 35636 Ford Man 18.90 R & L Udy 6 Ts166 Thrilling Dora nwtd Karen Walsh 7 16828 My Snuggles 18.93 Glennis Farrell 8 78847 Bigtime Lovie 18.92 Ben CraikEMERGENCIES: 9 84455 Miss Dupre nwtd S E Hunt 10 75587 Our Scarlett nwtd Glennis Farrell

4 Mps Fencing Sprint 1.10 $1685, C2, 318m

1 55225 Audrette 18.45 Bob Bond 2 37251 Paddy Fast 18.76 M & J Smith 3 15732 Asserting Power 18.68 S O’Neill 4 45761 Pacemaker 18.71 S O’Neill 5 46217 Nexus 18.60 Glennis Farrell 6 1125s Billy Bullet 18.68 Howard Scott 7 57513 Platinum Spirit 18.75 Steve Clark

8 74243 Bigtime Jacob 18.70 Ben CraikEMERGENCIES: 9 25428 Pliskova 18.78 Steve Clark 10 42234 Ma Chere 18.67 S O’Neill

5 Pump & Engineering Serv. 1.28 $2860, C2, 527m

1 72517 Crackling Gal 30.49 Udy & Cottam 2 45136 Our Hotrod 30.84 Udy & Cottam 3 47222 Tommy The Jett nwtd Marsha Black 4 31113 Thrilling Razor nwtd Karen Walsh 5 44636 Dig Dig Dig 30.60 S O’Neill 6 61578 Fear The Fur 30.93 S O’Neill 7 24818 Fall Gracefully nwtd M Prangley 8 25243 Opawa Nemo 30.96 W & T SteeleEMERGENCIES: 9 84548 Noah Who 30.52 M Prangley 10 35554 Busy Flash nwtd W & T Steele

6 Jo’s Wholesale & Sports Bar 1.47 $1450, C1, 318m

1 86588 Rion King nwtd R & L Udy 2 15564 Go Kiki nwtd Glennis Farrell 3 15776 Just Nia 18.80 Marsha Black 4 37837 Little Moo 18.57 Udy & Cottam 5 83228 Tribal Conquest 18.80 R & L Udy 6 46417 Fernando Charm 18.79 Thayne Green 7 35823 My Bro Bobby 18.80 M Prangley 8 83843 Little Mermaid 18.97 W & T SteeleEMERGENCIES: 9 74655 Grey Way 18.64 Greg Pomeroy 10 65477 Smash Out 18.94 R & L Udy

7 Terminating Pick6 Stakes 2.08 $2505, C1, 527m

1 24724 Get Me Home nwtd Udy & Cottam 2 11411 Thrilling Izzy nwtd Karen Walsh

3 21147 Bobble nwtd W & T Steele 4 41356 Dobby Who 30.93 M Prangley 5 87337 Little Apple 31.03 W & T Steele 6 58222 Ginny Weasley nwtd Emma Potts 7 72653 Opawa Lola nwtd Glennis Farrell 8 35718 Boyka 30.33 Glennis FarrellEMERGENCIES: 9 21444 Thea Who nwtd M Prangley 10 45356 Opawa Big 30.91 Glennis Farrell

8 Hewlett Electrical Sprint 2.27 $2390, C4, 318m

1 34742 Ashen 18.42 Bob Bond 2 3s735 Artic Miss 18.43 Greg Pomeroy 3 887s1 Jinja Might 18.59 Udy & Cottam 4 82328 Suspicious Minds 18.44 Ben Craik 5 21251 Madam Bucks 18.46 Greg Pomeroy 6 64453 Electric Dancer 18.48 W & T Steele 7 37763 Idol Nifty 18.23 Ben Craik 8 61334 Kiwi Gal nwtd Udy & CottamEMERGENCY: 9 15887 Manila Bala 18.24 R & N O’Regan

9 Qualified Pet Services 2.46 $2860, C5, 318m

1 18111 Carbon Tiger 18.35 W & T Steele 2 24163 Our Hemi nwtd Udy & Cottam 3 21651 Monsoon Malabar 19.22 Udy & Cottam 4 33153 Podium Phobia 18.53 Ben Craik 5 2s11F Iron Eyes 18.41 Emma Potts 6 46816 Charlow nwtd R & N O’Regan 7 276s1 Thrilling Peta 18.29 Karen Walsh 8 15533 Jinja Mongo 18.34 W & T Steele

10 Mt Wellington Tab Stakes 3.04 $3325, C3, 527m

1 443F8 Opawa Delight 30.59 Ben Craik

2 5168s Happy Medium 30.69 R & N O’Regan 3 21231 Thrilling Morris nwtd Karen Walsh 4 88621 Tap Out Bill nwtd Udy & Cottam 5 22315 Go Angel 30.70 Glennis Farrell 6 11653 Jinja Babe 31.03 Phil Green 7 74147 Flying Huey nwtd Marsha Black 8 366s2 Thrilling Stomp 30.99 Karen WalshEMERGENCIES: 9 84446 Looking Snatched 30.82 Ben Craik 10 7887s Claretown Beau nwtd R & N O’Regan

11 Carol’s Tab Taipa Tavern 3.26 $2860, C4/5, 318m

1 32117 Franky The Jett 18.44 Emma Potts 2 1528s Kelly’s Girl 18.44 Greg Pomeroy 3 56865 Does He Exist 18.53 Robert Roper 4 11125 Buddy Boom 18.26 Udy & Cottam 5 35715 Express Emporium 18.46 W & T Steele 6 81456 Prerogative 18.73 Udy & Cottam 7 41245 Kiwi Boy 18.18 Udy & Cottam 8 36786 Miss Claude 18.53 Udy & CottamEMERGENCY: 9 15887 Manila Bala 18.24 R & N O’Regan

12 Jack’s Wholesale Meats 3.44 $2035, C3, 318m

1 53166 Not Shackley 18.79 Jim Black 2 41138 Firefly Laffey 18.68 Sean Codlin 3 18117 Botany Rifles 18.71 Phil Green 4 57352 Go All Lin 18.56 S O’Neill 5 26411 Always Dreaming 18.58 Glennis Farrell 6 67354 Frosty Blaze nwtd Thayne Green 7 67733 Stay Rich 18.55 M & J Smith 8 58381 Blocker 18.52 R & N O’ReganEMERGENCIES: 9 61346 Zugzwang 18.54 S O’Neill 10 24877 Waiterimu Ripper 18.51 R & L Udy

SelectionsRace 1: FANCY, TAMANTHA, BOTANY SANDY

Race 2: NANA MOLLY, GRINDELWALD, ATTILA’S ARROW

Race 3: BAILEY AND CREAM, CHOO CHOO, FORD MAN

Race 4: PLATINUM SPIRIT, BILLY BULLET,

ASSERTING POWER

Race 5: THRILLING RAZOR, OPAWA NEMO, OUR HOTROD

Race 6: FERNANDO CHARM, LITTLE MERMAID,

MY BRO BOBBY

Race 7: THRILLING IZZY, BOBBLE, GET ME HOME

Race 8: MADAM BUCKS, KIWI GAL, ASHEN

Race 9: CARBON TIGER, PODIUM PHOBIA,

MONSOON MALABAR

Race 10: GO ANGEL, JINJA BABE, THRILLING MORRIS

Race 11: BUDDY BOOM, FRANKY THE JETT, KIWI BOY

Race 12: ALWAYS DREAMING, NOT SHACKLEY,

BOTANY RIFLES

Christchurch greys at Addington Monday 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 The Fitz Sports Bar Sprint 12.06 $1365, C0, 295m

1 2658s Homebush Susan nwtd John McInerney

2 Rita Jewel nwtd Craig Roberts

3 532 Dorothy Be Good nwtd Bruce Dann

4 85F58 Cancun nwtd Norman Wanhalla

5 47468 Homebush Ivy nwtd John McInerney

6 28s23 Marakesh Max nwtd John McInerney

7 46576 Mulberry Tip nwtd Ken Cassidy

8 86663 Sweet Mary Ann nwtd Rosemary Blackburn

EMERGENCIES:

9 668s7 Smash Trust nwtd Malcolm Grant

10 8888 Lady Sobers nwtd John McInerney

2 Amber Cleaning Services 12.26 $1365, C0, 295m

1 Taieri Mist nwtd Ray Casey 2 44473 Slippery Suzie nwtd S & B Evans 3 25673 Bees Are Buzzing nwtd J M McCook 4 Zola Black nwtd Craig Roberts 5 F345s Homebush Hans nwtd John McInerney 6 53365 Miss June nwtd John McInerney 7 53 Opawa Stubborn nwtd John McInerney 8 8s633 Girl Midori nwtd Rosemary BlackburnEMERGENCIES: 9 668s7 Smash Trust nwtd Malcolm Grant 10 8888 Lady Sobers nwtd John McInerney

3 Flair Stakes 12.48 $2390, C0, 520m

1 44355 Adelphi nwtd J M McCook 2 5F7s3 Ohoka Megan nwtd Lisa Waretini 3 All Unite nwtd J & D Fahey 4 8s22 Opawa Nova nwtd Robin Wales 5 5676 Mayhem Made nwtd Ashley Bradshaw 6 Opawa Girls Get nwtd Robin Wales 7 64s43 Opawa Hannah nwtd Robin Wales 8 84 Opawa Rowdy nwtd Robin WalesEMERGENCY: 9 67s8 Opawa Dawn nwtd Robin Wales

4 Culvie Boy’s Syndicate 1.06 $1365, C0, 295m

1 64736 Button It nwtd J M McCook 2 67345 Horse Range nwtd Malcolm Grant 3 85322 Mitcham Queen nwtd John McInerney 4 66656 Blushing Pete nwtd Robin Wales 5 Miss Cairo nwtd John McInerney 6 Taieri Snapshot nwtd Ray Casey 7 33578 Opawa Nash nwtd John Rush 8 Homebush Carter nwtd John McInerney

EMERGENCIES: 9 38885 Homebush Captain nwtd John McInerney 10 67687 Just Peaches nwtd Howard Anderton

5 Springston Hotel Dash 1.26 $1365, C0, 295m

1 5F745 Horse Range Opal nwtd Malcolm Grant 2 68622 Homebush Poppy nwtd John McInerney 3 4 Kingi Reigns nwtd Ashley Bradshaw 4 78s64 Mitcham Treasure nwtd John McInerney 5 8 Opawa Donal nwtd Robin Wales 6 878 Goldstar Harlowe nwtd S & B Evans 7 Edison nwtd John McInerney 8 Taieri Breeze nwtd Ray CaseyEMERGENCIES: 9 38885 Homebush Captain nwtd John McInerney 10 67687 Just Peaches nwtd Howard Anderton

6 Shirley Vet Clinic Stakes 1.52 $2390, C0, 520m

1 368 Opawa Jade nwtd Robin Wales 2 Opawa Boys Paid nwtd J & D Fahey 3 78775 My Bentley nwtd Robin Wales 4 58673 Princess Romaine nwtd Sharon Hindson 5 4F586 Opawa Rod nwtd Robin Wales 6 33F56 Goldstar Darwin nwtd S & B Evans 7 3365s Run Run Rover nwtd Ashley Bradshaw 8 Great Work nwtd J & D FaheyEMERGENCY: 9 67s8 Opawa Dawn nwtd Robin Wales

7 Clarkson’s Sign Studio 2.17 $1365, C0, 295m

1 F8747 Homebush Sonja nwtd John McInerney 2 624F8 Cool Hand Lester nwtd Sharon Hindson 3 Opawa Phil nwtd Robin Wales 4 2422F Sneaky Snitch nwtd Hart & Taylor 5 754 Mitcham Liam nwtd John McInerney

6 4 Iylah Jewel nwtd Craig Roberts 7 45776 Diller nwtd John McInerney 8 45267 Sweet Dreaming nwtd Rosemary BlackburnEMERGENCIES: 9 668s7 Smash Trust nwtd Malcolm Grant 10 8888 Lady Sobers nwtd John McInerney

8 Islington Tavern Stakes 2.35 $2505, C1, 520m

1 74241 Holy Grail 30.26 J & D Fahey 2 55768 Ain’t He Lucky 30.82 Norman Wanhalla 3 66334 Max Volume nwtd Ashley Bradshaw 4 73555 Father Leo nwtd John McInerney 5 4117 Leonard Bale nwtd Craig Roberts 6 56225 Little Secret 30.44 Lisa Waretini 7 33651 Making News nwtd Bruce Dann 8 25444 Born Tasha 30.14 Robin WalesEMERGENCIES: 9 48562 My Rosie 30.51 Lisa Waretini 10 s7637 Barrel Runner nwtd Ashley Bradshaw

9 Garrard’s Horse And Hound 2.52 $1365, C0, 295m

1 35477 Goldstar Aria nwtd S & B Evans 2 Taieri Mellay nwtd Ray Casey 3 2 Crystal Cilla nwtd John McInerney 4 64676 Homebush Murdock nwtd John McInerney 5 67477 Yappy Yap nwtd Robin Wales 6 243 Mine Hunter nwtd J M McCook 7 8 Pascale Jewel nwtd Craig Roberts 8 Whitman nwtd John McInerneyEMERGENCIES: 9 38885 Homebush Captain nwtd John McInerney 10 67687 Just Peaches nwtd Howard Anderton

10 Crate & Barrel Hotel Stakes 3.11 $2505, C1, 520m

1 24222 Go Diego 30.38 J & D Fahey

2 37371 Opawa Dan 30.37 J M McCook 3 22115 Usain Bale 30.64 Craig Roberts 4 22386 Homebush Bede nwtd John McInerney 5 165s3 Bye Bye Punter 30.96 Robin Wales 6 23226 Lethal Lettie 30.92 Ashley Bradshaw 7 36352 Hustle Ace 30.54 Norman Wanhalla 8 556s3 Haidee Bale 30.44 Daniel RobertsEMERGENCIES: 9 48562 My Rosie 30.51 Lisa Waretini 10 s7637 Barrel Runner nwtd Ashley Bradshaw

11 Swimming Goat @ Stud 3.28 $1450, C1, 295m

1 312 Rocco Jewel 17.62 Craig Roberts 2 888s6 Homebush Hotshot 17.46 John McInerney 3 17784 Khatia 17.50 John McInerney 4 14776 Impressive Gift nwtd John McInerney 5 61223 So Flossy 17.25 Bruce Dann 6 16477 Sass ‘Em Up 17.31 Corey Steele 7 73225 Billy Ray nwtd Norman Wanhalla 8 1182 Moany Maloney 17.53 Ashley BradshawEMERGENCIES: 9 55252 Call Me Joe 17.31 Alan Botherway 10 147s3 Retallick 17.33 J M McCook

12 Re-energise Dash 3.46 $1450, C1, 295m

1 65341 Mitcham Sam 17.47 John McInerney 2 24153 Hendrix Bale 17.35 Craig Roberts 3 87222 Know Crime nwtd Garry Cleeve 4 3s152 Mr Muppet 17.18 Robin Wales 5 82261 Culvie Numb Boy 17.86 Hart & Taylor 6 84487 Chicago Head 17.40 John McInerney 7 34432 Maybe Right 17.59 J M McCook 8 31787 Homebush Jozie nwtd John McInerneyEMERGENCIES: 9 55252 Call Me Joe 17.31 Alan Botherway 10 147s3 Retallick 17.33 J M McCook

SelectionsRace 1: MARAKESH MAX, DOROTHY BE GOOD,

HOMEBUSH SUSAN

Race 2: GIRL MIDORI, MISS JUNE, HOMEBUSH HANS

Race 3: OPAWA NOVA, OPAWA HANNAH, OHOKA MEGAN

Race 4: MITCHAM QUEEN, OPAWA NASH, HORSE RANGE

Race 5: HOMEBUSH POPPY, MITCHAM TREASURE,

HOMEBUSH CAPTAIN

Race 6: OPAWA ROD, MY BENTLEY

Race 7: SNEAKY SNITCH, IYLAH JEWEL, COOL

HAND LESTER

Race 8: LEONARD BALE, HOLY GRAIL, MAKING NEWS

Race 9: MINE HUNTER, CRYSTAL CILLA, GOLDSTAR ARIA

Race 10: USAIN BALE, HOMEBUSH BEDE, GO DIEGO

Race 11: ROCCO JEWEL, MOANY MALONEY, SO FLOSSY

Race 12: HENDRIX BALE, KNOW CRIME, MR MUPPET

Victoria races at Bendigo Sunday Jetbet 12 TAB doubles 3-4, 7-8 Trebles 2-3-4, 6-7-8 Quaddie 1-2-3-4, 5-6-7-8

1 Bendigo Sportsmen Association 2.20 $31,500, 2yo Fillies Maiden SW, 1100m

1 Gee Bee Ess (7) 57 68 2 Greythorn (16) 57 68 C Newitt 3 Infitaah (2) 57 70 L Nolen 4 Kasami (8) 57 70 J McNeil 5 Little Miss Gutsaa (4) 57 69 N Callow 6 Rhee’s Reward (10) 57 68 M Dee 7 Star Project (6) 57 69 C Williams 8 Starelle (11) 57 70 9 Sure Strategy (17) 57 70 B Allen 10 Sweet Virginia (1) 57 69 11 The Bride (14) 57 68 M Zahra 12 Vespertine (13) 57 68 J Childs EMERGENCIES: 13 4 Yes Baby Yes (5) 57 100 B Thompson 14 224s Vivilici b (18) 57 91 15 3 Palace Whisper (3) 57 96 16 8 Jumpin’ Jaguar (9) 57 71 Ms M Lloyd (a2) 17 0 Miss Kansas (12) 57 85 18 8 Azraq (15) 57 78

2 Bendigo Locksmiths Plate 2.55 $31,500, 3yo Maiden SW, 1400m

1 2s2 Arctic Wolf (16) 58 100 M Dee 2 Blazing Rebel (12) 58 84 R Mc Leod 3 47s25 Delivid h (8) 58 90 N Callow 4 26726 Dynamic Duo (17) 58 93 J Noonan 5 546s7 Gettysburg Address (2) 58 96 L Nolen 6 8030 Goggles Paisano (10) 58 91 B Allen 7 Over The Sky (13) 58 84 M Zahra 8 7s262 Red Lion (4) 58 94 B Mertens 9 23 Black Mirror (3) 56 93 L German (a) 10 40s Delegated (15) 56 88 D Dunn 11 64 Memphis Belle h (9) 56 94 J McNeil 12 372 Street Baby (11) 56 90 J Childs EMERGENCIES: 13 5 Marius (14) 58 85 14 0s0 Full Force Gale (7) 58 78 15 58 Vistabelle (6) 56 91 R Bayliss 16 69s7 Bolden Beau (1) 58 87 C Newitt 17 8s76 Blooming Alice (5) 56 89 18 0s756 St Rose h (18) 56 85

3 bet365 Odds Drift Protector 3.30 $31,500, Maiden SW, 1600m

1 09 Bravestone (11) 58.5 75 B Rawiller 2 s4547 Faltonius (7) 58.5 91 J Maskiell 3 86373 Frankie Fiorente (6) 58.5 94 L German (a) 4 7s769 It’s Tornado Storm (2) 58.5 81 S Payne 5 3s565 Mark The Horse (12) 58.5 88 Ms M Payne 6 4 Nube Viajera (3) 58.5 95 M Dee 7 222 Old Head b (13) 58.5 100 J McNeil 8 53 Resolute Lad (10) 58.5 97 M Zahra 9 0s8 Think More (8) 58.5 79 B Thompson

10 s6232 Chrysla b (1) 56.5 88 J Baldock 11 8s Magnalux (5) 56.5 82 J Childs 12 67s90 Ready Flight h (4) 56.5 82 J Keating EMERGENCY: 13 7s887 Reoffered h (9) 56.5 78 Ms J Eaton (a)

4 Jayco Plate 4.05 $31,500, 3yo Fillies Maiden SW, 1000m

1 7 Apres La Mer (14) 57 86 J McNeil 2 6s45 Helen’s The Boss (9) 57 89 W Price (a1.5) 3 6s Hervor (6) 57 82 Ms J Eaton (a) 4 s234s Hot In Paris b (8) 57 98 D Dunn 5 5s423 Mosscon b (12) 57 100 L Nolen 6 s479s Mystic Cloud (13) 57 89 J Noonan 7 5s4 Mzuri Star (10) 57 94 R Bayliss 8 33538 Ostara (11) 57 91 B Thompson 9 73s6s Spiteful (7) 57 95 N Farley 10 3558s Tantilizer (4) 57 90 R Mc Leod 11 42494 The Trance Factor (5) 57 88 A Lynch 12 8 Wildfire Rose (3) 57 80 Ms A Bryan (a3)EMERGENCIES: 13 70s Untouched (1) 57 86 J Martin 14 6s76 Ride Of A Lifetime (2) 57 86

5 The Big Screen Company 4.40 $31,500, Benchmark 78, 1000m

1 11710 Mister Mogul dwn (6) 60.5 98 B Allen 2 6160s Fill The Flute dwn (2) 59.5 96 N Callow 3 s0314 Reward With Return tdwn (5) 59.5 98 Ms M Lloyd (a2) 4 9s66s Ray’s Dream dw (4) 58.5 100 J Mott 5 67s3s Ascertain b (3) 57 89 C Newitt 6 11s50 Can’tforgetyou dn (1) 57 94 J McNeil 7 82087 Common Purpose dw (9) 57 95 M Dee

8 9s541 Honorellay dw (8) 56 100 L McNeil (a2) 9 5589s Gibbon dw (7) 56 94 J Noonan

6 Bendigo Mazda Handicap 5.15 $31,500, Benchmark 64, 1100m

1 85147 Rolling Moss dwn (8) 62 93 Ms E Brown (a3) 2 0s55s Buck Bay dw (14) 61 88 J Childs

3 — Exeter SCRATCHED

4 26192 Mistake dw (1) 61 93 Ms K Quilty (a4) 5 13766 Southern Turf dw (4) 60.5 95 C Newitt 6 134s9 Brother Paul wh (9) 60 89 J Keating 7 5197s Doves Cry wn (11) 60 89 W Price (a1.5) 8 160s0 Flostar d (13) 59.5 71 N Callow 9 82s18 Free Thrills dw (5) 59.5 96 J McNeil 10 46831 Carwelkin dw (6) 58 92 Ms M Lloyd (a2) 11 6525s Need New Friends wb (2) 58 95 D Moor 12 1 Too Easy Sis d (10) 57.5 94 D Dunn EMERGENCIES: 13 s268s Golden Script b (16) 57.5 90 M Dee 14 s2s1s Double Dink dw (3) 59 89 J Noonan 15 1428s Everybody Dance dw (12) 57 88 16 17s67 Auxin (7) 58.5 94 B Rawiller 17 s4s08 Tycoon Roxy dh (18) 56.5 89 18 s64s0 Lady Day dw (15) 56 85 Ms S Hunter

7 MDH Constructions Hcp 5.45 $31,500, Benchmark 70, 1600m

1 54688 Bag Raider tw (5) 60.5 95 L Nolen 2 11814 Te Ata dw (7) 60 94 W Price (a1.5) 3 56413 Analytica dwn (2) 59.5 96 M Dee 4 0s022 Adversary c (1) 59 95 J Childs 5 71445 Moscow Red dwn (11) 58.5 94 B Allen 6 03446 Okotoks dwn (4) 58.5 94 N Callow

7 07s40 Roland Garros dw (13) 58.5 92 Ms T Hope (a) 8 09s03 Queen La Diva cdwn (6) 58 99 C Newitt 9 3127s Naadirah wb (10) 56.5 92 J McNeil 10 7134 Curly Burgin (14) 56 91 L McNeil (a2) 11 50077 Hi Suppose cw (9) 56 93 Ms K Quilty (a4) 12 45625 The Dominator wn (12) 56 94 Ms M Lloyd (a2)EMERGENCIES: 13 64195 Elzinga dw (8) 56 86 D Dunn 14 23661 Ammoudi Bay tw (3) 60.5 100

8 Australian Bloodstock Hcp 6.15 $31,500, Benchmark 64, 1300m

1 67713 Reine Happy cw (2) 63.5 96 Ms K Quilty (a4) 2 6s103 Reckoning (5) 61 93 R Mc Leod 3 s442s Seas No Limit (14) 61 85 B Rawiller

4 — Lake’s Folly SCRATCHED

5 08s93 Greetings Ned tw (12) 60 96 L Nolen 6 03711 Silver Road wn (15) 60 92 B Thompson 7 21671 Snitz And The City (11) 60 92 Ms J Eaton (a) 8 12245 Shoot For Coomaah (13) 59.5 94 9 12s37 Knock Knock tw (18) 59 100 J Childs 10 321s8 Tavino (4) 59 91 C Newitt 11 s8621 Rose Of Capri dw (7) 58 93 L McNeil (a2) 12 s124s Away Cruising wb (1) 57 90 M Dee EMERGENCIES: 13 431 Red Robin w (8) 59 91 W Price (a1.5) 14 252s5 Ghost Doctor w (6) 59 94 D Dunn 15 1470s Royalty c (3) 58.5 95 M Dee 16 2718s Classic Fastnet (10) 58.5 88 17 s5705 Frazil tw (16) 56 95 18 742s5 Galaxy Ghost w (17) 58 95 B Allen

SelectionsRace 1: YES BABY YES, SWEET VIRGINIA, PALACE WHISPER

Race 2: ARCTIC WOLF, BLACK MIRROR, STREET BABY

Race 3: OLD HEAD, RESOLUTE LAD, FRANKIE FIORENTE

Race 4: MOSSCON, OSTARA, MZURI STAR

Race 5: ASCERTAIN, CAN’TFORGETYOU, MISTER MOGUL

Race 6: NEED NEW FRIENDS, DOVES CRY, FREE THRILLS

Race 7: ANALYTICA, MOSCOW RED, ADVERSARY

Race 8: SEAS NO LIMIT, KNOCK KNOCK, AWAY CRUISING

The Gisborne Herald • Saturday, May 16, 202024 RACING

TENNIS

LONDON — No professional tennis will be played until the end of July after the ATP and WTA Tours extended their suspension.

The men’s and women’s tours were due to resume on July 13 following a hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, but it was announced on Friday that has now been extended until the end of the month.

No tennis has been played since the end of February because of the global shutdown.

The new extension means ATP Tour events in Hamburg, Bastad, Newport, Los Cabos, Gstaad, Umag, Atlanta and Kitzbuhel are all cancelled while Lausanne, Bucharest, and Jurmala will now not host tournaments on the WTA Tour.

“Due to continued uncertainties surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic, we regret to announce our decision to extend the suspension of the Tour,” ATP chairman Andrea Gaudenzi said.

“Just like tennis fans, players and tournament hosts all over the world,

we share in the disappointment the Tour continues to be affected in this way.

“We continue to assess all of our options in an effort to resume the Tour as soon as it is safe to do so.”

A WTA spokesperson added: “We regret this is the case but will continue to be guided by medical experts for when it is safe and possible to return to WTA competition. We continue to monitor the situation closely and are hopeful to be back on the court as soon as possible.”

The Citi Open in Washington is the next event on the calendar, but there must be serious doubts over that with some tournaments on the North American hard-court swing already off.

The WTA said it would make a decision on tournaments in Palermo and Karlsruhe, which were to begin on July 20 and 28 respectively, when the announcements to its revised calendar were made in June.

Meanwhile, the game’s governing body ITF said all events — including ITF Juniors, Seniors,

UNIQLO Wheelchair Tennis Tour, Beach Tennis Tour and the men’s and women’s ITF World Tennis Tour — would be suspended.

However, the ITF suspensions will not affect any of the grand slams, with Wimbledon having already cancelled this year’s championships. The US Open is scheduled to begin on August 24, while the postponed French Open is now due to start on September 20.

The Swiss Open in Gstaad has been cancelled, while organisers of the Austrian Open in Kitzbuhel said they were looking at rescheduling the claycourt tournament for September.

Hamburg organisers said they were “focusing on a possible postponement of the tournament”.

The Hall of Fame Open in Newport, Rhode Island, has been cancelled and organisers said the Hall of Fame Class of 2020 induction ceremony will now not take place.

Tennis greats Conchita Martinez of Spain and Croatian Goran Ivanisevic will now be inducted in 2021. — PA

Suspension extendedAFL by Shayne Hope, AAP

MELBOURNE — AFL Players’ Association chief Paul Marsh has pleaded with the public not to conduct a “witch hunt” on AFL footballers with the eyes of the nation on them for the competition’s restart.

Players will be on a tight leash when they resume training on Monday, with AFL boss Gillon McLachlan outlining a strict set of protocols for them to operate under.

Players and club officials face daily health checks and twice-weekly Covid-19 tests, and their movement and interaction with the community outside football’s bubble will be limited.

Marsh said all players would try to follow the league’s rules, and abide by the coronavirus restrictions set out by relevant state governments.

He also said he hoped players were not “set up to fail”.

“Players won’t set out to breach the restrictions here — they’ll attack this trying to do the

right thing,” Marsh said.“I just hope we don’t have a

witch hunt trying to find players who may get things slightly wrong throughout this journey.

“Hopefully we won’t have players who get anything wrong but they’re human beings.”

The exact details of restrictions on players are still being negotiated between the AFL and AFLPA, but will be finalised in the coming days.

West Coast, Fremantle, Adelaide and Port Adelaide players face even tighter restrictions in their Gold Coast quarantine hubs.

“Being away from home is difficult,” Marsh said.

“That will create some anxiety for those four teams but I think the players are in a good head space and this is a challenge that they’re going to take on.

“It’s going to be a different year and I just hope everyone gives them a bit of slack for what they’re doing here because without their commitment we’re not going to have a season.”

Public urged to cut players some slack

The Gisborne Herald • Saturday, May 16, 2020 SPORT 25

Monday, May 18, 2020

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TAMPA, Florida — The Ironman 70.3 World Championship that was to be held at Taupo on November 28 and 29 has been postponed to a yet-to-be-determined date in 2021 as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Ironman World Championship scheduled for Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, has also been postponed — from October 10 this year to February 6 next.

The original Ironman has been raced in Hawaii since 1978, and was founded by US Navy officers wanting to challenge their physical endurance.

These days, athletes have to qualify to be among the raceday competitors. Qualifying events are held on six continents.

Typically over 94,000 athletes vie for about 2500 starting places. When they get

to the start line, they face a four-kilometre swim, a 180km bike ride and a 42km run.

Since its inception in 2006, the Ironman 70.3 World Championship has grown in stature and popularity. Every year over 200,000 athletes compete for a place at the start of the two-day event, where about 5000 tackle the course — a 1.9km swim, a 90km bike ride and 21km run.

Ironman 70.3 World Championship organisers said teams were working with local and national officials and authorities to secure a date for early 2021.

A majority of the qualifying events for both world championship events had been postponed or put back beyond 2020, Ironman organisers said.

This would have hindered the staging of truly competitive world championships and gone against the organisers’ intention to give athletes and communities as much

preparation time as possible.Taking all this into account, it was clear

the events could not go ahead in their planned timeframes.

As a result, two editions of the Ironman World Championship would be held next year, in February and October, to accommodate athletes who qualified during the 2020 and 2021 seasons.

Because of the continued impact of Covid-19, the qualifying window for the 2020 edition of the Ironman World Championship had been extended to provide further qualification opportunities.

In 2019, the Ironman World Championship generated a total economic impact of US$72 million, according to a study conducted by Markrich Research.

In addition, Ironman and the Ironman Foundation had provided a total of US$1.9 million in grant funding to the Kailua-Kona

region since the inception of the Ironman World Championship, organisers said.

The Ironman 70.3 World Championship has grown to the stage where it is now the culmination of over 100 events.

Based on past economic impact studies, the 2020 edition of the Ironman 70.3 World Championship was expected to have created a total impact reaching NZ$20 million for the host city and region.

Taupo District Mayor David Trewavas said the postponement was expected, given the effect Covid-19 was having.

“This was no doubt a difficult decision, but the most important thing is that we as a community are ready to welcome these athletes when the time is right,” he said.

Taupo was proud to be home to the Ironman New Zealand triathlon, he said.

The district was keen to show the world what it had to offer.

Taupo, Hawaii Ironman events postponed

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RUGBY LEAGUE by Pamela Whaley, AAP

SYDNEY — As if recovering from knee surgery wasn’t bad enough, Warriors hooker Nathaniel Roache was the unlucky one left in New Zealand while his teammates boarded a chartered flight bound for Tamworth.

When the NRL announced it was aiming to restart on May 28, the Warriors headed for northern New South Wales to isolate while he stayed behind with a cough that prompted a nasal swab.

After the Covid-19 results came back negative, only a 12-hour ordeal stood between the 24-year-old and his team — but it seems nothing comes easy for Roache.

Once in Sydney he was eventually cleared by the Australian government to isolate in Tamworth rather than a hotel for 14 days. He was told to hire a car and drive the six hours north.

Only you need a full licence — and his is restricted.

The club was forced to organise someone to collect him from Sydney airport and take him to Tamworth, and by the time he arrived with the squad 12 hours after he landed, he was “knackered”.

The team agreed to start over their 14-day isolation in Wests Tamworth Leagues to make sure he didn’t have to go through it all alone.

“I was trying to tell them, if it was going to cause too much hassle I’ll do the two weeks by myself because I didn’t want to affect the team; I was already coming late,” he said.

“They like it (in Tamworth). It’s such a good place and the field is literally across the car park, the gym is pretty much like our gym back in New Zealand, so they didn’t mind the extra few days to stay.

“It didn’t make me feel that bad.”All of this, and he has no certain return

date.Roache is recovering from an ACL (anterior

cruciate ligament) injury from July last year, as well as an ankle surgery he had four

months after his knee operation.The coronavirus shutdown has impacted his

return date, which was teo be around July this year, and he’s uncertain when he will get back on the field.

On Monday he completed his first full running and skills session after around nine months of surgeon visits, recovery and rest.

So when he’s finally back on the field, he doesn’t care who he plays, where or when.

“I just want a game.”

Roache plays catch-up

GOLF

NEW YORK CITY — The Michigan, USA, tournament where the LPGA Tour hoped to resume its season has been cancelled.

The LPGA said on Friday that the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational will not be played from July 15 to 18 because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The tour did not offer any other specifics except for Commissioner Mike Whan emphasising the long-term health of the tour was paramount.

This is the only team event on the LPGA schedule. Whan says Dow has extended its title sponsor contract and the LPGA will return to the Great Lakes Bay region next year and beyond.

The cancellation means the LPGA now hopes to return with the Marathon LPGA Classic in Ohio from July 23 to 26. — AP

Michigan LPGA tourney cancelled

KEEN TO PLAY: Warriors hooker Nathaniel Roache scores against Brisbane Broncos during the 2016 NRL Auckland Nines at Eden Park. Roache had a tortuous journey to rejoin the Warriors party after having to leave New Zealand late. NZ Herald picture

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GOLF by Steve Douglas, AP

PADRAIG Harrington was planning to bring a 150-strong travelling party with him to the Ryder Cup, giving the people closest to the European captain something of an inside experience of one of the great events in golf.

“I’m now down to four, something like that,” Harrington said, rather dolefully, as he assessed the wreckage of a tournament that is still scheduled to be played from September 25 to 27 at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin.

The coronavirus pandemic has ripped up the sporting calendar, but the Ryder Cup survives. So far.

And in a form Harrington knows will be unappetising to many golf enthusiasts and people beyond the sport who are attracted to the boisterous biennial contest between the United States and Europe.

Rory McIlroy and Brooks Koepka, two of the biggest names in golf, have been among a growing group of players to have asked out loud: What’s the point in a Ryder Cup without fans?

“My friends who don’t play golf are into the Ryder Cup because of the buzz, the atmosphere, the excitement. That’s why the players enjoy it and play it. It’s going to be missed,” Harrington said in a phone interview with The Associated Press.

“If it’s on, it’s without fans. Or without a semblance of fans because there

won’t be the ones coming from Europe. If you only have home fans, there’s nothing to cheer for and against. That’s it, at the end of the day.”

Harrington accepts, therefore, the 2020 edition of the Ryder Cup will be a “diminished” product.

But in the big picture, can it still have wider value?

“The question is, do they take one for sport?” he said. “Do people sitting at home want the Ryder Cup in a diminished format just so they have sport on TV?

“There is a much bigger thing going on,” Harrington added. “Put it in context of what’s going on in the world. But this is why we are actually talking about the Ryder Cup going ahead. Because, in its current form, it certainly would only go on because sport may need — and people may need — a bit of an uplift.”

All the popular Irishman can do is prepare, mentally, as if the Ryder Cup is going ahead in four and a half months, when Europe will be defending the trophy. He is excited by the imminent resumption of the PGA Tour, which will allow him to assess the play of some of Europe’s more experienced golfers who might not make the 12-man team by way of the European and world points lists.

Harrington said he would need at least six weeks of play, “just so I can judge form”.

The qualifying criteria were up in the air because of the shutdown of golf since

March, and the Europeans were looking over different models, which were being gradually whittled down, he said.

“None of them involve me having 12 picks, I can tell you that,” said Harrington, who has three wild-card captain selections as it stands. “I still have no interest in having a lot of picks; I don’t see the reason for that.

“At the end of the day, you’re only going to agonise over the last two, really. Maybe three people for two spots, or four for three spots. The last pick is the important one.”

The Ryder Cup is a vast moneymaker, but Harrington dismissed the notion that this year’s event is only going ahead for financial reasons.

The European Tour, he added, could easily cope if the upcoming Ryder Cup was pushed back a year and the next European-based edition — scheduled for Italy in 2022 — was delayed until 2023.

That despite there being no sign of any regular events taking place on the European Tour until July at the earliest, which is severely denting its revenues.

“The European Tour is sitting on one of the biggest assets in sport. They are not going anywhere,” Harrington said.

“When you look at the financial side of it, it’s not for financial reasons to have it this year. Nobody needs it for that reason.

“Financially, it’d probably be better to have it next year. But just for the good of

sport, to get something out there.”For now, the Ryder Cup remains at

the mercy of the coronavirus as the United States battles to stifle a disease that has killed nearly 85,000 people in the country and more than 300,000 worldwide. Experts say the actual numbers are likely far higher.

The event was last postponed — by a

year — in 2001 shortly after the terrorist attacks in the United States.

“Of course there are massive doubts about this,” Harrington said. “There’s nobody arguing that there isn’t doubt about the Ryder Cup. The best thing you can do is prepare as is. But no matter what, it will be a very different Ryder Cup.”

This Ryder Cup will be different

READY TO ‘TAKE ONE FOR SPORT’: European captain Padraig Harrington said yesterday that golf might have to “take one for sport” and stage the Ryder Cup without fans at Whistling Straits in September, accepting that it would be “diminished” because of the coronavirus pandemic. AP picture

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GOLF INSIDERUGBY LEAGUE

RUGBY by Steve McMorran, AP

WELLINGTON — World Rugby has postponed July test matches between Southern and Northern Hemisphere nations because of ongoing restrictions on international travel during the coronavirus pandemic.

The sport’s international governing body issued a statement yesterday saying the mid-year test window would be rescheduled when cross-border travel and quarantine regulations were relaxed.

New Zealand had been scheduled to play Wales and Scotland, Australia were set to play Ireland and Fiji, and Rugby World Cup champions South Africa had planned to host Scotland and Georgia.

Japan were set to play a test against Wales and two against England in their first internationals since they hosted the World Cup last year.

World Rugby said the decision to shutter the July international

window was made because of “ongoing government and health agency Covid-19 directives”.

“Extended travel and quarantine restrictions that apply to numerous countries and concerns over adequate player preparation time mean that any sort of cross-border international rugby competition cannot be hosted in July,” World Rugby said.

The Super Rugby season was suspended in March, but participating countries are planning domestic tournaments to offset the lost provincial games. New Zealand’s Super Rugby teams will play a 10-week competition starting next month, and Australia’s Super Rugby clubs are aiming for a July restart.

In terms of test matches, World Rugby said it would continue to monitor the potential impact on the remaining 2020 international windows.

It said consultation would take place

with member unions, professional clubs and the International Rugby Players’ Association “with a view to achieving an aligned calendar for the remainder of the year”.

October is shaping as the month when postponed matches could be played. Strict lockdown measures are being gradually eased in New Zealand and Australia from this week, and there’s been talk of resuming travel between the countries in a so-called “Tasman bubble”.

South Africa Rugby Union chief executive Jurie Roux said any rescheduling of the tests would have “player health, welfare and appropriate return-to-play protocols at heart”.

As for the future timing, Roux said it would be “inappropriate to comment on potential solutions during a fluid and important consultation process”.

The All Blacks had been scheduled to play Wales at Auckland on July 4 and at Wellington on July 11, and Scotland at

Dunedin on July 18.“With so much uncertainty around

international travel because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the decision was really taken out of our hands,” NZ Rugby chief executive Mark Robinson said.

“From a New Zealand point of view, we are taking a pragmatic approach to the international test programme.

“We are working hard to explore any and every opportunity to play All Blacks tests as well as Black Ferns (women’s) tests this year and watching with keen interest any government discussions on a possible transtasman (travel) bubble with Australia.”

The June or July test window is an established part of the international rugby season, when European nations travel south for test series and when tournaments such as the Pacific Nations Cup are played, involving Pacific Island nations and Japan, Canada and the United States.

JULY TESTS POSTPONED

IN FULL VOICE: The Welsh rugby team during the national anthems, before the first test against the All Blacks, at Eden Park, Auckland, in June 2016. Wales were scheduled to play two games against the All Blacks in New Zealand in July this year, but those games have been postponed until cross-border travel and quarantine regulations have been relaxed. A visit to New Zealand by Scotland has also been postponed, for the same reasons. NZ Herald picture

Visits by Wales and Scotland off for now