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Golden day at the waka ama national sprints

Tairāwhiti paddlers enjoyed a golden day at the Waka Ama New Zealand national sprint championships on Lake Karapiro yesterday. The J16 women’s crew Puhi Kaiariki, of Self Storage Gisborne Horouta Waka Hoe Club, won the W6 1000-metre final (with...

Results from the Peninsula Duvauchelle Shears

by Doug Laing, Hawke’s Bay Today Former No. 1-ranked senior shearer Lionel Taumata finally cracked a win in the open class, as the post-Christmas stage of the 2023-2024 shearing sports season kicked off at the Duvauchelle A & P Show on...

Small cattle sale, similar prices at first Matawhero Cattle Fair of 2024

There were just over 200 cattle sold yesterday at the first Matawhero Cattle Fair for 2024. The yarding consisted of several pens of light-conditioned cows with calves at foot, and numerous smaller 15-month cattle. There was a very small bench of...

A car crash that was waiting to happen

The Bloomfield Road-Bushmere Road intersection is very dangerous at the moment, approaching it from the Matawhero side. For 250 metres leading up to the intersection, Bloomfield Road is an uneven mess of warped tarseal and potholes that get worse...

IDF ‘most moral army in the world’

by Patrick Cooper At the International Court of Justice at The Hague, South Africa has accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. Patrick Cooper Does the Israeli Defence Force deliberately rape, torture and kill Palestinian civilians, as Hamas...

Bureaucracy gone mad

I recently received a package from the tax department that must have cost a fortune to produce. It was to do with my pension and proclaimed that because I had lived and worked in Australia, Australia was going to have to pay me a pension. On first...

Betty G beaches at Waihau Bay

A missing boat belonging to a man who fell overboard and spent 24 hours floating in the sea off the Coromandel Peninsula was yesterday found off East Cape nearly 200 kilometres away. Cambridge 61-year-old Will Fransen said he tried and failed...

Wairoa council faces growing problem of abandoned cars

Frustration over abandoned cars littering the township has led to Wairoa District Council clearing unwanted cars. Council staff aired their annoyance at the number of abandoned cars around the Wairoa township during an infrastructure and regulatory...

Kiwi Corrin flies to history-making IronWoman win

Gisborne’s Olivia Corrin made surf lifesaving history on Saturday when she won the third round of the Nutri-Grain IronMan and IronWoman series in Sydney — the first time a Kiwi woman has triumphed in a round of the prestigious event. Corrin, who...

Farr and Mateja champs

Taranaki surfer Daniel Farr claimed his second open men’s national surfing title by the closest margin in the history of the event. In the open women’s contest, 15-year-old Raglan surfer Maya Mateja stunned the field to win the title...

Campion’s openers raise the bar

The first college derby of the year was a beauty. Despite a superb unbeaten 92 from Gisborne Boys’ High School (2) adult player Steve Whitaker, Campion College won the clash by eight wickets. Bat dominated ball on a good No. 4 pitch. Campion’s...

Three local clubs shine

Horouta, Mareikura and YMP junior crews were among the pacesetters on the first two days of the Waka Ama New Zealand national sprint championships at Lake Karapiro. Puhi Kaiariki, of Self Storage Gisborne Horouta Waka Hoe Club, won the J16 women’s...

Taiwanese thumb their nose at China

Apart from a wedding in Hawke’s Bay at the weekend, much of the attention of the news cycle in the past week and the one that started yesterday has been focused on overseas developments. At the head of it is the Israel-Hamas war that has now...

Time to get real: role to play in Red Sea

Clive Bibby I watched an Australian interview with an ex four-star American General the other night and his comments said a lot about that country’s “free loader” contribution to world security. Although the General was voicing his concern...

Hate to see habitat lost

Let’s make sure we do not make a huge, smelly, costly mistake spraying the river grass. How about we make sure it is the right thing to do for the environment and for the finances of this district? And if it is sprayed, do we know how long it will...

Any consultation, consent?

When did council discuss the spraying of spartina grass in the Taruheru River? I cannot recall any discussion — or was it one of those “working sessions” that are still unavailable to the public? As the spraying will bring about landscape and...