Tolaga Bay blueberry growing operation Hauiti Berries is on track to meet harvest targets this year, with good-quality fruit and a full picking team. It is coming to the end of harvest, which started in August and runs through until the end of...
by Sam Halstead Toby Williams is the fifth generation of his family to farm sheep on their land near Gisborne, and he is passionate about wool and about supporting initiatives to lift returns for strong wool. “It’s a wonderful fibre,” Mr...
Fuel has become a highly sought after commodity for thieves operating in rural areas. Livestock for food is another target. The average rate of rural crime in Tairāwhiti remains steady but it does experience peaks and troughs and right now, police...
by Hunaara Waerehu President Gisborne-Wairoa Federated Farmers Tairāwhiti farmers have faced significant challenges in the past 12 months, including but not limited to the impacts from both Cyclone Hale and Cyclone Gabrielle, and more challenges to...
Let there be cricket. That is the refrain from all 10 of Poverty Bay’s club teams ahead of what they are praying will be Round 6 in the Premier Grade 40-over Doleman Cup and Senior B 30-over Hope Cup competitions tomorrow. Of the prems fixtures to...
Challenge Cup T20 cricket has a new hero: Aarav Nair. The unassuming Life Guards middle-order batter was the surprise package of his team’s innings in the all-Gisborne Boys’ High School final against the Blues and Royals at Nelson Park on...
A GDC activities report for a recent council meeting discussed expansion of its land management team over recent months, and progress establishing “effective tree cover” requirements of the Tairāwhiti Resource Management Plan for the region’s...
A shout out of support to Haimona Ngata and the team at Tairāwhiti Adventure Trust. Their skills, enthusiasm and innovative ideas are welcome relief during so much despondency over the continual destruction of our city and surrounds. Bring it on...
Ka Pai Haimona Ngata. Thank you for bringing your skills and collaborative, positive contribution to taking our city forward. Geoff Meade
Gisborne District Council has announced another full clean-up of the latest storm debris piled up on city beaches will start some time in the next couple of weeks. Contractors will first clear wood debris in front of the Waikanae and Midway surf...
Hundreds of sports clubs, social clubs and community groups are having to comply with new rules around incorporated societies or face mandatory dissolution. About 24,000 nationwide societies registered under the Incorporated Societies Act 1908 need...
Work gets under way this week on the construction of a slow vehicle bay on State Highway 2 at Kotemaori, near the intersection with Kakariki Farm Road. Waka Kotahi/New Zealand Transport Agency said the work site would be under traffic management...
Registrations are rolling in for the Wairoa Christmas Parade being held on Saturday, December 9. The theme of the fun and festive afternoon is “Everyone Santa”. The whole town is encouraged to demonstrate the spirit of Christmas by dressing up...
Hato Hone St John’s recruitment hīkoi around the East Cape next month looks set to draw a strong response from the community if interest shown for the Te Kaha event can be taken as an indication. Whakaōrite Whiwhinga Mahi, the organisation’s...
A man has been jailed for child sex offences he first committed as a teenager in the early 1980s. Now in his late 50s, the man cannot be named because it would risk identifying the victim, whose details are automatically protected by law. She was...
Full surf lifeguard volunteer weekend patrols begin at Waikanae, Midway and Wainui beaches this weekend. Lifeguards will be on duty each weekend into mid-March. Surf lifesaving clubs have already been patrolling during their nippers gatherings on...
Sustainable land use advocates are calling for Gisborne District Council to clarify its position on the future of land-based activities in the region. Responding to comments from chair Warren Rance, chair of Eastland Wood Council, at a council...
A man was taken to Gisborne Hospital yesterday morning with serious burns after the sleepout he was in, on a property at the Scott Street and Haldane Street corner in Elgin, caught fire. Fire and Emergency NZ sent crews to the scene at around 9am...
The first of the major ram sales of the season happens today at the Matawhero saleyards when Mark and Rose Candy from Mangahauhau Hampshires auction off 80 of their strapping young fellows. The Hangaroa stud enjoyed a total clearance in their 2022...
Firefighters were called to the rescue yesterday morning when some people found themselves trapped in an elevator at the former Adairs Building in Grey Street. FENZ were called in around 8.50am. The four people in it were very relieved when the fire...
Newly elected Labour MP for Ikaroa-Rāwhiti MP Cushla Tangaere-Manuel has been appointed her party’s spokesperson for tourism and hospitality, forestry and cyclone recovery. Chris Hipkins, in his new role as Leader of Opposition, said Labour had...
Gisborne District Council has provided a detailed update on road repair progress in the wake of the weekend’s heavy rain, as well as an update on affected bridges and river crossings. “As many of you will be aware, our already fragile roading...
by Gary Hamilton-Irvine, Hawke’s Bay Today Napier MP Katie Nimon says the damaged Napier to Wairoa railway line should be considered as a new road to replace State Highway 2. A question mark continues to hang over the future of that railway which...
by Claire Trevett, NZ Herald Former Justice Minister Kiri Allan says she has pleaded not guilty to a charge of failing to accompany police on the night she crashed her car in Wellington because she wanted to test an apparent grey area in the law...
When 36-year senior firefighter Dave Covell made his retirement speech last weekend he thanked his mates for their comradeship and Fire and Emergency NZ for the opportunity to serve his community. The 68-year-old veteran reckoned it was time to...
Two Gisborne teenagers will make their men’s national interprovincial debuts on one of the country’s most famous courses. Zach Rolls and Marcus Gray have been named in the six-strong Tairāwhiti team to compete at the interprovincials being...
Electrinet Park The club just can’t catch a break. The weekend rain once again resulted in heavy surface flooding and the course being closed. However, greenkeeper Pete Tamatea said on Facebook on Tuesday that the water was “draining away...
Tairāwhiti waka ama paddlers have been honoured at the 2023 Māori Sports Awards held in the Bay of Plenty at the weekend. Hine Brooking (Ngāti Porou, Rongowhakaata, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) was honoured as an individual Māori world champion, and the...
Reserve Bank governor Adrian Orr surprised markets yesterday by dissuading them of any cuts to the official cash rate (OCR) next year and leaving the door open to a further hike in interest rates if inflationary pressures turn out to be stronger...
This never-ending nuisance of forestry slash must stop. What other industries are allowed to discharge their waste products into the environment? Surely it should be possible to establish regulations that require the logging companies to process the...
For the first time a faith pavilion will be part of COP28, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, to inspire ambitious goals and call for concrete commitments on climate change. The Pope is attending the opening. Shane Goldie, a 22-year-old...
by Hamish Barwick Three years ago, Glenn and Carolyn Prebble on the Whakarau Road took the plunge into running Cashmere goats in their sheep and beef operation and are now reaping the benefits of weed control, Cashmere fibre and meat. The...
A Gisborne district councillor has called the local authority’s risk management practices into question, earning a request to apologise in the process. At Tuesday’s audit and risk meeting, Colin Alder said the council needed to add “another...
The clean-up of debris on the city beaches brought in by the weekend storm was likely to begin today or tomorrow, with contractors to initially clear driftwood away from in front of the Waikanae and Midway surflife saving clubs. The council...