A “fantastic” event that “showed the heart and soul that’s in our community” was how the 2023 edition of the ever-popular Poverty Bay A&P Spring Show was summed. Thousands of people flocked to Showgrounds Park on Saturday, following on...
Kirkpatrick’s victory a 9500-vote turnaround from 2020 election
The expected blue tide rolled in a little higher than the polls had suggested on Saturday night, but not quite enough to give Prime Minister elect Christopher Luxon the clear majority he badly wanted. Preliminary results out on Sunday saw Luxon and...
Gwynne Dyer Armies never tell you what their strategy is, but if you look at the problems they are faced with, you can usually figure it out. No solution they come up with can be perfect — wars do not allow for perfect solutions — but their...
Attention service providers! Recently I helped a 77-year-old homeless person. Her eftpos card was worn out and needed replacing, and as she has no fixed abode they hadn’t been able to update it. When she rang them, they told her she needed proof...
The 2023 general election results are in and National will lead a new Government for the next three years. Climate change and the environment are a low priority for National and its Act coalition partner, which wants to repeal the Zero Carbon Act...
The chap driving the children’s Fonterra barrel rides for two days at the Show, with a smile on his face the whole time and showing untold patience with his little passengers, deserves a medal. Maire Overbye, Vivienne Cooper and Raigh Franks
There’s something about comebacks that gets Poverty Bay firing on all cylinders. Civil Project Solutions Poverty Bay Weka fell agonisingly short of winning the Heartland Championship’s Lochore Cup (fifth to eighth) final for the fifth time on...
Julie Davey saved the best for last in the major class on the final day of equestrian at the Poverty Bay A&P Show on Saturday. She and her imported grey mare Just D were the last to go in a classy field in the Property Brokers Horse Grand Prix...
Congratulations to Bette Parker and Caroline Kirkpatrick for a top score of 70.63 percent on Friday, October 6. Monday, October 2 — Bayleys Pairs 1 (Howell movement) Amanda Matthews, Pippa Williams 64.19 Murray Owen, Mark Fleming 63.81 Elizabeth...
With just three-quarters of the year gone the Trust Tairāwhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter had already completed more missions than for the whole of last year. During 2022 the team flew 248 completed missions from their Gisborne hangar, as well as...
by Gary Hamilton-Irvine Just hours before Cushla Tangaere-Manuel was elected as Ikaroa-Rāwhiti’s new MP, she made a trip to an urupā to visit her parents’ graves. Labour’s Tangaere-Manuel defeated long-standing Ikaroa-Rāwhiti MP Mek...
Newshub's Paddy Gower called East Coast for National's Dana Kirkpatrick at 7.20pm on election night but Ms Kirkpatrick and Labour's Tāmati Coffey were still reserving judgement two hours later. From 8pm to just after 9pm, Ms Kirkpatrick had a lead...
Perfect weather highlighted the A&P Show dog trial competition out at the Showgrounds Park, that culminated this morning in the final run-off. Five Gisborne triallists and one from Wairoa were set to decide the title against combinations from...
Beef + Lamb New Zealand’s ‘Better Ram Buying’ workshop will be staged on Monday at the Waikanae Surf Lifesaving Club in Grey Street. “Don’t miss this opportunity to gain essential insights into ram selection,” said B+LNZ senior extension...
A fantastic first day of the Spring Show yesterday was just the ticket for bringing our community together, from town, country and all walks of life. The sun was shining and the mood was festive as families and friends set about enjoying the many...
Tim Wilson, Maxim Institute executive director Sociologist Brian Steensland says culture is the “symbolic-expressive dimension of social life”. It’s a helpful lens for analysing and describing the functions of a community. In policy, cultural...
Clive Bibby We should not be persuaded by the crocodile tears from Joe Biden or those of his Democrat predecessor Barack Obama professing they have been and always will be right behind the Israeli nation as they try to find a way of defending...
The country’s 2300-plus polling booths close at 7pm tonight. By the end of Wednesday, nearly one million (970,818) ordinary votes had been cast. That compares to 1,565,056 votes up to the comparable day in 2020, and 806,380 votes on the same day...
Gisborne Police are urgently seeking sightings of missing man Matthew Knight. Matthew was last seen in the Raupunga Mohaka area at around 10pm on Monday. He was wearing black work boots, blue jeans, and a black jacket. Police and Matthew’s family...
The past 12 months have been a “year of two halves”, according to the Gisborne District Council’s annual report. The document, which covers the period July 2022 to June 2023, provides an overview of performance as well as offering direction...
by Doug Laing Shearers and woolhandlers have gathered in Gisborne for the first North Island competitions of the new season at the Poverty Bay A&P Show. The annual Gisborne Shearing and Woolhandling Championships opened with a speedshear and...
The final run-off in the Spring Show dog trials championship this morning pitted five triallists from Gisborne and one from Wairoa up against nine visitors from outside the district, and a tight final was predicted. The last five to make the run-off...
Beautiful weather brought the crowds out early to the first day of the A&P Gisborne Show yesterday. Friends and mums Kate Gunn and Bea Tomlinson were happy to be out and about enjoying the good weather. “We are excited for the kids to go on...
A plan to build a new “village” in Gisborne for 150 out-of-town road and construction workers recruited to help the post-Cyclone Gabrielle rebuild has raised questions and concerns.
Eight titles, a new black belt and the judoka-of-the-year honour . . . Gisborne Judo Club had an event to remember at the national championships in Porirua over the weekend. “We won titles from juniors to veterans, which was cool,” club head...
Tyla Hackett is living the dream. The 22-year-old is one of two team riders for Takapoto Estate in Cambridge. She has been there nearly a year and says every day she still pinches herself as the reality of spending her days with horses sinks in...
Adding more firepower to its 21st birthday celebration, Rhythm and Vines has announced its second line-up and day splits. UK superstar Becky Hill, Welsh electronic duo Overmono, Sub Focus (presenting Evolve), and singer-songwriter Declan McKenna are...
Gisborne Airport operations manager Aaron Lum has been named the first Emerging Leader of the Year at the 2023 NZ Airports Awards. Aaron is just one year into his role as the first point of contact for all day-to-day operations at Gisborne Airport...
A forestry company has expressed its “sincere” and “whole-hearted” apology for its environmental offending in Papakorokoro Forest, north of Gisborne, admitting it “could have been avoided”. At a sentencing hearing for Forwood Forest...
A work commissioned by the Gisborne Civic Orchestra in 2019 will have its premiere at the Lawson Field Theatre next month. “The audience can expect a truly moving and memorable musical experience as the orchestra brings this music to life for the...
Predictions that sheep and beef profit margins could fall a further 30 percent this season could be the “straw that breaks the camel’s back” for some Tairāwhiti farmers, says Federated Farmers provincial president Hunaara Waerehu. Beef + Lamb...
Gisborne citrus company First Fresh had an excellent turn out at its Spring Field Day after what company CEO Ian Albers described as the toughest year he could remember in 23 years. The focus for the afternoon was to reconnect with growers and start...
The last time Poverty Bay made a Heartland Championship Lochore Cup final, they turned on their best performance of the season — a 49-22 drubbing of South Canterbury in Gisborne in 2011. And history is definitely on their side heading into the...