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The Hindu
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Hindu
Divine Art, Waitara, Run For The Sun, Mighty Hero and Aldgate impress
Divine Art, Waitara, Run For The Sun, Mighty Hero and Aldgate impressed when the horses were exercised here on Saturday morning (July 19) Inner sand: 600m: Assurance (rb), Star Honour (Siddaraju) 40. Former finished four lengths ahead. 1400m: Chicago Chimes (Koshi K), Golden Thunder (Bhawani) 1-38, 1,200/1-24, 1,000/1-9, 600/41. They moved freely. Outer sand: 600m: Highland Dreams (B. Nayak) 44. Moved well. Best Of Us (Suraj) 44.5. Easy. Shellacking (Qureshi) 45. Moved freely. 1000m: Dubai Safari (Qureshi) 1-11, 600/42. Strode out well. Aldgate (Antony) 1-11, 600/41.5. Pleased. Fils De France (Antony) 1-15, 600/44. Moved freely. Run For The Sun (Antony) 1-9.5, 600/41.5. Moved attractively. Ceremonial (Antony) 1-13, 600/45.5. Easy. Power Of Beauty (Anish) 1-13.5, 600/41. Moved fluently. Romping Home (Peter) 1-14.5, 600/44. Moved well. Divine Art (Suraj) 1-11, 600/41. A fine display. 1200m: Sir Winston (rb) 1-29.5, 1,000/1-12.5, 600/43.5. Worked well. Chinky Pinky (rb) 1-30.5, 1,000/1-14.5, 600/45. Easy. Victoria Doresaani (Rosario), Zeppelin (Arvind) 1-27.5, 1,000/1-11.5, 600/43. A notable pair. Never Give In (Antony) 1-27, 1,000/1-12, 600/42. Shaped well. Waitara (C. Umesh) 1-23.5, 1,000/1-8.5, 600/41. Responded well to the urgings. Elveden (Antony) 1-27.5, 1,000/1-13, 600/43. In fine trim. 1400m: Mighty Hero (C. Umesh) 1-42, 1,200/1-25, 1,000/1-9.5, 600/42. Impressed. Alamgir (Pavan), Zephyrine (Arvind) 1-46.5, 1,200/1-30.5, 1,000/1-15.5, 600/44.5. They moved on the bit. N R I Victory (Qureshi) 1-45.5, (1,400-600) 58.5. Eased up. Mayne Magic (Antony) 1-43.5, 1,200/1-27, 1,000/1-11.5, 600/42. In fine nick. Unforgettable Star (Prabhakaran) 1-45, 1,200/1-30, 1,000/1-15.5, 600/45. In fine shape. Outer sand - July 18: 600m: Bezawada Sultan (Bhawani) 46. Easy. 1200m: N R I Ace (Qureshi) 1-26, 1,000/1-12, 600/43.5. Pleased. Dun It Again (Sai Kiran), Laamika (G. Vivek) 1-24, 1,000/1-10, 60043. They moved impressively. N R I Victory (Qureshi) 1-31, (1,200-600) 44. Eased up. 1400m: Sativur (G. Vivek) 1-39, 1,200/1-24.5, 1,000/1-10, 600/41. A good display.
RNZ News
10-07-2025
- RNZ News
Jamie Elliott named as victim of Taranaki house fire
Firefighters at the scene of the fatal fire. Photo: RNZ/Emma Andrews Police have released the name of the man who died after a fatal house fire in Waitara last month . He was 45-year-old Jamie Elliott, also known as Jamos. Elliott was the sole occupant of the house, however, his dog 'Sox' was found dead alongside him. Emergency services were called to the scene on Browne Street, at 7:30am on 6 June. Waitara house fire. Photo: RNZ/Emma Andrews According to a Facebook post, Elliott was interred at his whānau urupā. Police extended their condolences to his family and friends. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero , a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
RNZ News
28-06-2025
- Health
- RNZ News
Tā Māui Pōmare day: Sir Richard Faull pays heed to Māori health pioneers
Peter Buck (Te Rangi Hiroa), Apirana Ngata, and Maui Pomare at Avondale camp on 20 October, 1914. Photo: public domain Cars lined the streets leading to Ōwae Marae in Waitara on Saturday to celebrate Tā Māui Pōmare, a 20th century medical doctor and New Zealand's first Māori Health Minister. Sir Māui Pōmare Annual Commemorations happen every third Saturday in June at Ōwae Marae, sometimes at Urenui Pā (Ngāti Mutunga). "[He] was a local rangatira and a doctor who was concerned for our people and the infrastructure around how we lived," Manukorihi Pā Reserve trustee and Marae Kaitiaki Roina Graham said. Pōmare (Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Toa) graduated the American Medical Missionary College in Chicago in 1899 and returned to Aotearoa the following year to give back to Māori. In 1911, he was elected to Parliament representing Western Māori and in 1923 he became the Minister of Health. Sir Māui Pōmare died in 1930 in Los Angeles, but was buried at Ōwae Marae. Tā Māui Pōmare statue during the Ōwae Marae carving restorations in 2024. It is where Pōmare was buried Photo: RNZ / Emma Andrews Surrounded by mana whenua, Māui Pōmare's great-grandaughter Miria Pōmare, and current Māori doctors, New Zealand's leading neuroscientist Sir Richard Faull (Te Atiawa) gave an impromptu speech paying homage to his heroes Tā Māui Pōmare and Te Rangi Hīroa (Sir Peter Buck). Although Pōmare was New Zealand's first Māori doctor, Te Rangi Hīroa was the first Māori doctor to have graduated in Aotearoa. Te Rangi Hīroa was a Māori medical officer under Pōmare, both came together to improve the sanitation of Māori settlements and the health of the tangata Māori. Faull, a Waitara High School alumni of 1963, said he was a 'book nerd' and was awarded dux and received the Te Rangi Hīroa medal in his final year "That medal is a beacon for me," Faull said. It gave him a nudge into health care. "You can only look after the health of your people by having your people as your leaders, your doctors." Growing up, Faull knew he was Māori, but when he was doing medicine and brain research in the USA at Boston's MIT and Harvard, he needed more financial assistance to continue, so he asked for it in a letter to his dad. His dad wrote back and said kaumātua from Te Atiawa wanted to give him $1000. It was like gold to him, but he didn't "feel Māori" back then and didn't want to accept the offer. Faull recalled the letter from his dad that read 'they have said that you will come home, and they want you to take this [koha]." It stirred his Māori whakapapa. Richard Faull Photo: University of Auckland / CBR In 1986, Faull delivered a speech about Parkinson's and Huntington's disease to a group of people in Taranaki where he noticed a group of Māori from Te Atiawa. The group asked Faull to help them with their Huntington's disease which is an inherited gradual decay of nerve cells in the brain affecting movement, thinking, and emotional problems. "I didn't know how I was going to help them, but they were asking me home." Every year he had met with the whānau from Te Atiawa, but it was during Friday's 'special' hui with them that he was able to deliver assurance. Faull, and other researchers have been working to find a way to 'turn the gene off' that causes Huntington's. "For the first time I gave them hope, for the first time it felt like Māori helping Māori. "We have come home to help our whānau, nothing is going to stop us." Faull had spent 50 years on brain research, and for the past five years he and Dr Makarena Dudley - a clinical neuropsychologist and 'expert' on dementia in kaumātua Māori - have been to 17 different marae to talk to iwi Māori about what they're finding in the neuro space. "We're not there to tell them what to do. We're there to listen to what they need and then we help them," Faull said. Faull was one of many who developed MAPAS (Māori and Pacific Admission Scheme) at the Auckland Medical School to support and increase the number of Māori and Pacific health professionals. According to the Medical Council for New Zealand's most recent data from 31 March, 2025, it's a steady incline for Māori who now make up 5.11 percent of current practicing doctors in Aotearoa. Faull was proud to say his son was a second-year health surgeon in Whangārei who aimed to form a general practice with Māori. "We have to have our Māori doctors to look after our Māori people and that is non-negotiable." "Māui Pōmare knew that. He went out and he turned health around for Māori. Māori were declining in population and Māui Pōmare, Te Rangi Hīroa, Apirana Ngata, they changed the horizon... and that horizon is still threatened." Sir Māui Wiremu Piti Naera Pōmare while a student at Battle Creek College in Michigan, USA, in 1899. Photo: Supplied / Alexander Turnbull Library Te tiriti is the 'goal standard' Faull pleaded to politicians. "It's about partnership. Partnership is not about one partner being dominant over the other partner, it is about shared values, a shared vision, it is about equality for all. "Never forget what partnership is about, it's not about dismantling te tiriti, we are here to honour the words of our ancestors, our tīpuna." He said Māori look to their tīpuna to chart for their future. "Their words, their actions, they did this to guide us. Māui Pōmare did it [and] Te Rangi Hīroa - Sir Peter Buck." Although Faull said it's wonderful to see the number of Māori doctors celebrating the life of Tā Māui Pōmare, there was a big task ahead. "It's not a task that's special or different for Māori, it's a task about giving equity to Māori. About self-expression helping them to determine their future. That is a partnership. "We've come a long way, but we've got so much further to go." Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero , a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
RNZ News
28-06-2025
- Automotive
- RNZ News
'I've never woken up so disorientated in my life': Community helps tornado victims
The car was whipped around by the tornado Photo: RNZ / Emma Andrews Clean up efforts are underway after a tornado tore through the Taranaki town of Waitara overnight. There was a bit of confusion when Susan Duncan was woken up by her dog barking on Friday night, she thought someone was tampering with her daughters car which was parked outside of her house on Aratapu Street. "I heard the wind and I heard the wheelie bins and stuff, and it's sort of a normal thing that happens, but my dog just wouldn't shut up so I thought I better get up," Duncan said. She looked outside and saw her trees beaten and then she saw the car and thought "what the hell?" Waitara Aratapu St resident Susan Duncan said her Ford Focus was picked up and tossed around in the wind, after reports a tornado ripped through the area just after midnight, on Saturday 28 June, 2025. Photo: RNZ/ Robin Martin There was already a dent on the car, but the car had been swung by the tornado leaving skids on the grass and its windows had smashed. "I'm so shocked that all this has happened but my house is still standing. I'm so grateful and lucky that it wasn't in the middle of the day - imagine iron flying at you." Her daughter Jade spoke to RNZ while on a video call with her mum. Jade works as a baker in Wellington and was saving money to fix the minor dent on her car. "To see it absolutely destroyed sucks," Jade said. "I'm trying to move to Melbourne so I was going to fix the car and sell it, so I had that money to get to Melbourne." It was part of her plan because her fiancé is over there waiting for her. The car was whipped around by the tornado Photo: RNZ / Emma Andrews The car is worth $5000 and the insurance was put on hold, Duncan said, now the car will "go to the wreckers". "We didn't want to waste the money while it's not being used right? Nothing's going to happen to it," Duncan thought before the tornado struck. People have rallied around those who have been affected by the tornado, continuously bringing supplies and pumpkin soup. Waitara High School principal Daryl Warburton jumped into the school van, hitched up the trailer, and headed to his friends house on Aratapu Street. He was there to pick up the debris and locate items that were scooped up during the weather event. The affected houses on Aratapu Street are next to farm land where there are normally horses - the residence heard from the owner that the horses are safe. A roof has been patched up from the weather event on Aratapu Street Photo: RNZ / Emma Andrews Warburton had driven to the house on the farm and collected outdoor furniture that had flown approximately 250 metres. He said the flying items had sliced through wired fencing at the farm house. Meteorologist Kgolofello Dube said the atmospheric conditions at the time were "favourable" to a tornado forming, and given the damage, it was likely. It is not yet confirmed that there was one. Firefighters were called to several homes shortly after midnight after strong winds blew out a sunroom on Elliott Street . Fire and Emergency NZ said there were no injuries, but at least 11 houses on the main street of Waitara alone suffered damage. Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero , a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
RNZ News
27-06-2025
- Climate
- RNZ News
Weather: Tornado rips through Taranaki town, damaging at least 11 homes
Residents in Waitara are assessing the damage after reports a tornado ripped through the area overnight, on Saturday 28 June, 2025. Photo: RNZ/ Robin Martin Residents in the Taranaki town of Waitara are assessing damage after strong winds ripped through the area overnight. Meteorologist Kgolofello Dube said the atmospheric conditions at the time were "favourable" to a tornado forming, and given the damage, it was likely - but Dube could not yet confirm whether it was one. Firefighters were called to several homes shortly after midnight after strong winds blew out a sunroom on Elliott Street. There were also reports of lifted roofs, flattened fences, and even a car being tossed around like it was a matchbox toy. Photo: RNZ/ Robin Martin Fire and Emergency said there were no injuries, but at least 11 houses on the main street of Waitara alone suffered damage. Photo: RNZ/ Robin Martin A Tuiti Street resident said the tornado had ripped off her roof, demolished a greenhouse, and took out trees on her property. Shirlene Patterson said she was in bed with her five-year-old granddaughter beside her. "I was sound asleep but then I heard the peeling and cracking of the tin coming off, and then a bang. I'm not sure what direction it was going - the bang could have been a tree going, it was a huge bottlebrush tree. "I had my five-year-old granddaughter in the bedroom with me, I got out of bed and grabbed her and brought her down to the other end of the house and it felt more secure." Patterson said her granddaughter was "absolutely my first priority", and she grabbed her and they went to a safer part of the house to take shelter. Her villa had "good bones" and that was probably what helped save it, she added. "The damage is significant, for a 100-year-old house, it's got really good bones and it is really sturdy. [But] the roof, the structure, its apex that was up there, that has all gone." Patterson said it looked like parts of a neighbouring property that was damaged had hit her house. Photo: RNZ/ Robin Martin At nearby Aratapu Street, Susan Duncan thought her Ford Focus had been hit by another vehicle, but the tornado had picked it up and thrown it around, smashing windows and denting panel work. Photo: RNZ/ Robin Martin Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero , a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
