This year’s theme was Tangaroa. Mīharo program development manager Tania Carran said to Māori and Pacific Island cultures, Tangaroa was an ancestor or an atua – which was a God of the sea and all the creatures within it. Mīharo patron Johnny Penisula chose the winning design because he “felt the design was complete and a real showstopper”. Penisula also said in his notes for his choice that he thought “it reflected the theme and the Whakataukī really well and represented THRIVING in a picture.” The Tangaroa theme for this year really got the students taking part to get creative with their entries.
He had previously been working as a concrete labourer before two abrasions in his eye had pushed him to consider “stepping up” his career. Burn said that assistance at the event had been ‘’really helpful”, and that he was considering looking into apprenticeships as an option after speaking to trades representatives. Crispin Espiritu, also of Invercargill, was looking for full-time work and considering getting involved in the electrical trade after discussion with vendors. Espiritu has been a New Zealand permanent resident for five years. Before the Covid-19 pandemic, he worked on a ship that travelled around the world, and has prior electrical experience.
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The successful candidate will join Alan Dennis, Paddy O’Brien, Suzanne Prentice, Sean Bellew, and Angela Newell at the ILT table. As of Wednesday morning, 7730 votes had been cast from the pool of 32,372 eligible voters, meaning a 23.88 per cent voter turnout to date. It is the second by-election held in Invercargill this year following February’s Invercargill City Council by-election. The council by-election attracted 14,700 votes which was a 36.58 per cent turnout. Those who still want to vote in the ILT by-election will need to drop voting papers off to the council’s office in Esk Street, or at the Invercargill Public Library.
The Court of Appeal has found a sentence an Invercargill man was given was manifestly excessive.
A man jailed for doing an indecent act at the Invercargill Public Library has had his sentenced reduced. Michael Lawrence Williams, 35, was sentenced to two years and 10 months’ jail in March last year when he appeared in the Invercargill District Court on two charges of committing an indecent act, one of wilful trespass and three charges of perverting the course of justice. The library incident happened on May 30, 2017, when seminal fluid was found on a cushion and DNA testing later determined it belonged to Williams.