Craig Cooper: Cancelled festival jolt to Hawke's Bay's 'naive complacency' 16 Feb, 2021 03:59 AM 3 minutes to read Patrick Dingemans, 81, has become so frustrated at watching shoppers ignore QR codes, he has lobbied supermarkets and large retailers to locate the QR code at checkouts. Patrick Dingemans, 81, has become so frustrated at watching shoppers ignore QR codes, he has lobbied supermarkets and large retailers to locate the QR code at checkouts. OPINION If Hawke's Bay needed a jolt to remind us of the impact of Covid 19, we got it. Here we were thinking ''poor old Auckland'' and relaxing in level 2 complacency. The iconic Art Deco Festival has been cancelled for the first time since its inception.