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Ernslaw One appealing certification suspension

Practices of Gisborne forestry company Ernslaw One are in the spotlight after its Forest Stewardship Council certification was revoked following a report from Geneva-based auditor SGS Société Générale de Surveillance. Ernslaw has appealed the...

Aerial mapping project wraps up

A major aerial mapping project intended to gather information on the region’s underground water resources concluded with a survey of the Poverty Bay Flats at the weekend. The project was carried out by Aqua Intel Aotearoa (a partnership between...

1080 being dropped to wipe out predators in the Raukūmara

Raukūmara Pae Maunga restoration project has started the year with a pre-feed application which sets the stage for a 1080 drop. Raukūmara Pae Maunga is the largest indigenous conservation project in the world. It is led by East Coast iwi Ngati...

Gisborne Herald 21.02.24

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Long-boarding to the world champs

Gisborne surfer Hannah Kohn saved her best to last and booked a trip to the ISA world championships at the New Zealand Festival of Longboarding contest at Papamoa on Sunday. Kohn, 27, won the open women’s title while fellow Gisborne surfer Dan...

Midway rack up the medals

Midway came home from the Northern Regional surf lifesaving championships at Whangamatā at the weekend with a stack of medals with the squad producing another strong performance ahead of the nationals next month. The club’s Under-19 athletes were...

Tristin stars at Super 8

Gisborne Boys’ High student Tristin Williams won’t forget his Super 8 secondary schools golf tournament debut on the Awapuni Links course yesterday. Playing in the B Division of the 54-hole event, the youngster racked up an incredible 60...

POVERTY BAY SENIOR CLUB CRICKET RESULTS

SATURDAY — Premier Grade DJ Barry Cup, Round 2, Day 1: Gisborne Boys’ High School 164 all out in 54.1 overs (Johnathan Gray 40, Nathaniel Fearnley 38 not out, David Gray 29; Keegan Jooste 4-31, Nicholas Armour 3-25) lead Bollywood High School...

Seamless switch for rescue chopper

In the week to Sunday the Trust Tairāwhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter team flew two helicopters and completed 12 missions, nearly twice their usual weekly average. “That’s a big caseload in anybody’s language and just shows the level of...

Consent application for SH2 Waikare realignment lodged with HBRC

by Doug Laing Wairoa Mayor Craig Little is hoping the long-awaited State Highway 2 Waikare Realignment between Napier and Wairoa will go ahead without a hitch after resource consent was lodged with the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council. The consent...

Pakihi Track section of Motu Trails reopens after geotech assessment

Riding the region’s longest forest mountain bike track in summer is a great way to focus on technique instead of speed while having fun, says Motu Trails Charitable Trust chair Amy Spence. The 20km-Pakihi Track northwest of Gisborne is part of the...

Rocket Lab launches mission to clean up space junk

A mission to help clean up space junk launched successfully from Rocket Lab’s Māhia spaceport yesterday. The mission, named On Closer Inspection, deployed an orbital debris inspection satellite for Astroscale Japan Inc. Rocket Lab’s Electron...

Gisborne Herald 20.02.24

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Pressure on to find rail ferries Plan B

The Government and KiwiRail have to come up with a solution quickly on what to do about the inter-island rail ferry service. In December the Government declined the state-owned rail operator’s request for an extra $1.47 billion for the...

Indonesia’s election: a curious outcome

Gwynne Dyer Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo concluded his second five-year term on Tuesday with a national election in which his chosen successors won a convincing victory. “Jokowi”, as everybody calls him, still enjoys 70 percent public...

Maybe it’s not inevitable

Bob Hughes Re: ‘Doom is not inevitable’, Feb 10 AP story. Thanks Gisborne Herald for running this last Saturday. I noticed your heading and later subheading “There is still hope” didn’t appear in other mainstream news outlets. The new...