Contractors repairing the collapsed sewer main in Ormond Road at the junction with Lytton Road,yesterday. Gisborne District Council staff have been working alongside hospital staff to ensure minimum disruption while the sewer pipe is fixed. This is...
Tairawhiti-raised Hurricanes lock Isaia Walker-Leawere has served a one-month ban from all sport after testing positive for cannabis use. Walker-Leawere tested positive after the Hurricanes played the Fijian Drua in Suva in May and served his ban...
The Sunrise Foundation welcomed new trustees Mike Torrie, BDO managing partner, and Leslynne Jackson, Manaaki Tairāwhiti project manager, to their board of trustees at the recent AGM. “Mike and Leslynne’s respective roles and experience in the...
The Serious Fraud Office with neither confirm nor deny if it is investigating cases of fraud here around misuses of the Government’s recent cyclone recovery business grants. Earlier this week, the SFO issued a new strategic focus, listing...
Tairāwhiti has 153 cases of Covid-19, according to the latest figures released by Te Whatu Ora. Total Tairāwhiti cases “recoded” since the Covid epidemic began in 2020 number 24,820 and include 35 deaths. All Te Whatu Ora data on Covid relates...
Gisborne District Council is to suspend its programme to strengthen existing bridges during the current financial year because staff have been reprioritised to focus on storm recovery work. The $650,000 annual programme was implemented to enable 50...
New research shows the scale and pace of sheep and beef land purchased for forestry is even higher than first thought. An updated Orme & Associates report on land-use change from pastoral farming to large-scale forestry shows the amount of land...
Workplace challenges remain the most common reason for women to never breastfeed or to stop breastfeeding earlier than recommended. That is the key issue behind the theme for World Breastfeeding Week 2023 — Enabling breastfeeding: making...
A council decision to approve a lease in principle on culturally significant land in Tokomaru Bay was made without a full swathe of information available to councillors, a report has revealed. Last September, Gisborne District Council’s operations...
More than 100 people picked up 1.3 tonnes of rubbish from the sand dunes and beach along the Mad Mile on Sunday morning. The community clean-up along Centennial Marine Drive was organised by Waste Management and Gisborne District Council. Waste...
The new Wharf 7 development at Eastland Port has been used for the first time with the docking of the coastal container ship Rangitata. She has been discharging a load of 2000 tonnes of fertiliser for Ravensdown. The Rangitata, first ship to dock...
Police have recovered firearms, ammunition and molotov cocktails from the Totara Street house that was shot at on Saturday night and a gang member from that address has been arrested. A woman was alone in the house with her five daughters at around...
Young artist Te Waiotu Fairlie is still on cloud nine after an incredible experience working with renowned artist Mr G (Graham Hoete) on a mural project for the FIFA World Cup in Wellington. She was chosen to help Mr G paint a large mural of...
Gisborne-based BrazilBeat will be bringing their signature sound to the winter rave party Ice Block at Smash Palace on Saturday. Describing their music as Global Bass, it’s a musical style and culture that combines dancehall, dubstep, cumbi...
When Lawrence Mulligan watched the play Michael James Manaia being performed at Lawson Field Theatre as a 15-year-old schoolboy he wouldn’t in his wildest dreams have imagined that more than 30 years later he would be taking on the role himself...
Gisborne Ballet Group will be holding its annual dance competitions this weekend where dancers compete in a variety of styles including ballet, tap and modern. New this year is a memorial scholarship and trophy in the name of Gill Clout who passed...
■ Friday Night Karaoke Breakers Jandal Bar, from 8pm. ■ Manphibian Smash Palace, Friday, 8pm. Classic Rock gurus Manphibian appear at Smash Palace with their inimitable take on the good stuff from the 70s. Door sales $10. ■ Ice Block Smash...
Odeon Multiplex ■ Asteroid City American comedy drama written and directed by Wes Anderson with a cast that includes Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks, Tilda Swinton, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Matt Dillon, Willem Dafoe, Margot Robbie and Jeff...
In 2006, a Nissan marketing executive had a truly insane idea to create a competition and an “academy” to turn gamers into race car drivers. Darren Cox saw an untapped market of potential car-buyers in Gran Turismo enthusiasts — the popular...
In my letter of August 2, I said that on the Opoutama side of the big slip at Blacks Beach, there was an old, 1 metre slump, 40 metres long and covered in blackberry that I bet no one else had seen . . . and that it could go any day. Note, the slump...
I read of councillor concern that “GHL’s dominant asset is being lined up to be sold”. This is not a new plan, as our community has watched assets being sold off by sell-off types meant to represent us before. National and local...
by Clive Bibby It is hard to differentiate between those who walk out of meetings, probably to gain a headline on the 6pm network news, and those who attend because they desperately need to hear of some government action that might ease the pressure...
by Marcus Roberts Maxim Institute director of research Nigel Lawson’s aphorism “to govern is to choose” reminds us that there is no such thing as a free lunch. When a government chooses a particular course of action, it necessarily has less...
A new report on funding for general practices has highlighted what has been a growing risk — the pressure on the country’s front-line doctors. Prof Des Gorman, who co-authored the report Lifeline for Health: Meeting New Zealand’s Need For...
by Doug Laing A wave of shearing record attempts in the New Zealand summer means a record has fallen even before the shearing has started. The World Sheep Shearing Records Society has now received seven applications for challenges in New Zealand...
Veteran triallist Barney Strong from Taupo headed home the field in the final runoff for the Charity sheep dog trial championships at the Gisborne Riding Club for the Disabled on Saturday morning. The finalists were Merv Utting with Guy and Steel...
Netball Pak’nSave Gisborne Netball, SATURDAY, senior semifinals — semifinals cannot end in a draw). All games are 4x10-minute quarters with two-minute first-quarter and third-quarter breaks, and a three-minute halftime. Duty teams to put up the...
Waikanae surf lifeguard Jack Keepa set an Australian record and won three titles at the 2023 Australian Surf Life Saving Pool Rescue Championships at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre at the weekend. Keepa competed alongside other Kiwi athletes who went...
Gisborne swimmers were in the medals on Day 1 of the New Zealand Short Course Swimming Champs at the Hawke’s Bay Regional Aquatic Centre. Enterprise Cars Swim Team members Helena Huettemeyer, 15, and Taylor Newman, 13, both made the podium...
A resounding 6-0 victory to YMP A men and a hard-fought one-goal win to GMC Green were the outcomes as arch-rivals clashed in the lead-in to the Poverty Bay club hockey playoffs. James Torrie belted home three goals on the Hain Farming Turf at Harry...
The Falcons honoured a fallen club hero by winning the tournament that bears his name. The annual Nate Miller Tournament kicked off the Tairāwhiti Rugby League 2023 season. The Seeka Falcons beat Paikea Whalers 16-10 in the final at Barry Park on...
The Olympic Games fire burning in Gisborne judoka Sydnee Andrews has become a blaze after her latest international success. Andrews competed at the prestigious Hungary Masters in Budapest over the weekend. She won her women’s over-78 kilograms...
Direct passage to the Gisborne Premier Grade netball championship grand final beckons tonight in the YMCA for YMP or Whangara Old Girls.
Iain Boyle refers to Winston Peters as “wily and duplicitous”, suggesting that votes for NZ First would be wasted (August 5 letter) — but not so! Mr Boyle blames Winston for installing Jacinda Ardern in 2017 but in effect it was the misguided...