Gisborne Herald
  • Gisborne Herald Home
  • Latest news
  • Business
  • Lifestyle
  • Sport

Subscriptions

  • Herald Premium
  • Viva Premium
  • The Listener
  • BusinessDesk

Sections

  • Latest news
  • On The Up
  • Business
  • Lifestyle
  • Sport

Locations

  • Gisborne
  • Bay of Plenty
  • Hawke's Bay

Media

  • Today's Paper - E-Editions
  • Photo sales
  • Classifieds

Weather

  • Gisborne

NZME Network

  • Advertise with NZME
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • BusinessDesk
  • Newstalk ZB
  • Sunlive
  • ZM
  • The Hits
  • Coast
  • Radio Hauraki
  • The Alternative Commentary Collective
  • Gold
  • Flava
  • iHeart Radio
  • Hokonui
  • Radio Wanaka
  • iHeartCountry New Zealand
  • Restaurant Hub
  • NZME Events

SubscribeSign In

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Premium
Home / Gisborne Herald / Opinion

Scanning fail, back to manual

Gisborne Herald
16 Mar, 2023 11:29 PMQuick Read

Subscribe to listen

Access to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.
Already a subscriber?  

Listening to articles is free for open-access content—explore other articles or learn more about text-to-speech.
‌
Save
    Share this article

    Reminder, this is a Premium article and requires a subscription to read.

A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.

A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.

Opinion

I visited our excellent HB Williams Memorial Library yesterday.

On arrival, I was politely asked by security to show my vaccination pass. I produced mine, which is printed on paper. Unfortunately the mobile phone being used did not acknowledge my pass. The pleasant security lass also tried her phone to scan my pass, to no avail.

As this was not expected by any of us, security recorded my visit manually on paper and I was allowed to enter the library.

Is this just a first-day problem or will it happen to all paper vaccination passes?

Will places requiring vaccination passes have to have paper and pen, on hand, to manually record paper vaccination passes which failed to scan?

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

This could be an ongoing issue for me and others with paper vaccination passes.

Some helpful answers would be welcome please.

So much for modern technology!

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Barbara N. Barwick

Save
    Share this article

    Reminder, this is a Premium article and requires a subscription to read.

Latest from Gisborne Herald

Gisborne Herald

Relief for Tairāwhiti Health NZ staff with $14m remediation, ex-staff still waiting

Gisborne Herald

'We would be so grateful': Call for volunteers for Daffodil Day

Gisborne Herald

Plenty interest in ‘nProve’ programme


Sponsored

Revealed: The night driving ‘red flag’

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Latest from Gisborne Herald

Relief for Tairāwhiti Health NZ staff with $14m remediation, ex-staff still waiting
Gisborne Herald

Relief for Tairāwhiti Health NZ staff with $14m remediation, ex-staff still waiting

Over $544.2 million has been paid nationally across 72,296 current employees.

08 Aug 03:00 AM
'We would be so grateful': Call for volunteers for Daffodil Day
Gisborne Herald

'We would be so grateful': Call for volunteers for Daffodil Day

08 Aug 02:14 AM
Plenty interest in ‘nProve’ programme
Gisborne Herald

Plenty interest in ‘nProve’ programme

08 Aug 02:04 AM


Revealed: The night driving ‘red flag’
Sponsored

Revealed: The night driving ‘red flag’

04 Aug 11:37 PM
NZ Herald
  • About NZ Herald
  • Meet the journalists
  • Newsletters
  • Classifieds
  • Help & support
  • Contact us
  • House rules
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of use
  • Competition terms & conditions
  • Our use of AI
Subscriber Services
  • Manage your print subscription
  • Manage your digital subscription
  • Subscribe to Herald Premium
  • Subscribe to the Gisborne Herald
  • Gift a subscription
  • Subscriber FAQs
  • Subscription terms & conditions
  • Promotions and subscriber benefits
NZME Network
  • Gisborne Herald
  • The New Zealand Herald
  • The Northland Age
  • The Northern Advocate
  • Waikato Herald
  • Bay of Plenty Times
  • Rotorua Daily Post
  • Whanganui Chronicle
  • Viva
  • NZ Listener
  • Newstalk ZB
  • BusinessDesk
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • iHeart Radio
  • Restaurant Hub
NZME
  • NZME Events
  • About NZME
  • NZME careers
  • Advertise with NZME
  • Digital self-service advertising
  • Photo sales
  • © Copyright 2025 NZME Publishing Limited
TOP