LAWN BOWLS Kahutia Bowling Club’s Karen Pinn narrowly missed out on making the semifinals of the national super singles tournament for players with up to eight years of bowls experience. In a field of 24, she finished ninth. After a stellar summer...
Different year. Same teams. The 2023 Civil Project Solutions Premier club rugby final will feature the same protagonists as 2022 after YMP and Waikohu booked their spots in the Lee Bros Shield decider with semifinal victories on Saturday. GT...
Planning a wetland restoration? The Gisborne District Council’s catchments and biodiversity team is working on developing some tools and resources to help landowners and community groups with planning biodiversity enhancement projects. Locals have...
Firefighters were called twice to a house at the Elgin end of Childers Road overnight Sunday after a fire started in a bedroom of the property early in the evening. Fire and Emergency NZ sent appliances to the home at around 6pm initially. “...
The Haka Party Incident may be revisiting a confrontation in 1979 that changed the nation’s race relations forever, but it is just as relevant today. Perhaps even more so ,says Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival chief executive and artistic director...
One of the region’s favourite sons, Rutene Spooner, is back this week to delight young and old with the show he created, Pipi Paopao. It’s a homecoming that Spooner (Ngati Porou, Ngaruahine and Ngati Kahungunu) always looks forward to. “I find...
Orere Angus at Pehiri kicked off the Gisborne component of East Coast Angus Bull Week yesterday morning with an almost total clearance and a top price of $65,000. Ben and Kylie Johnson sold 19 out of the 20 rising two-year-old bulls they put up by...
A new high price of $68,000 was paid for a bull fairly late in the Tangihau Angus catalogue yesterday as the Rere stud continued the high clearance rate this rising two-year-old bull sale season. The stud also sold one for $62,000. Lot 25 sold for...
Police have released the name of the man whose body was found in a car in the Mata River inland from Ruatoria last week. He was 52-year-old Royce Alan Mathieson from Ruatoria. His car went off Matahiia Road and into the river and was washed about...
People are advised to stay out of the water, after 12 days of sewer discharges into waterways here. Gisborne District Council confirmed the emergency sewer valves were closed at 3pm Friday. The council advises no swimming, fishing, or gathering...
An open day to celebrate their new premises in the Ballance Street Village was a great success for Elite Hobbies, with a great number of radio/remote controlled (RC) vehicle enthusiasts joining in the celebrations and fun. Co-owners Daniel Contreras...
Medical professionals are calling for higher rates of immunisation as presentations are increasing at Gisborne Hospital. And it’s only the first wave of winter illnesses which has arrived in Tairāwhiti. Last week, as the second term drew to...
There was a light wind and light rain as the passengers walked out to their plane at Whenuapai airport on the morning of July 3, 1963, but everyone was in a good mood as they were returning to home and family. Their plane, a National Airways...
RUGBY Civil Project Solutions Poverty Bay Premier club rugby semifinals: YMP 63 Larsawn Ngatapa 11; GT Shearing Waikohu 38 Enterprise Cars OBM 26. Senior 1 semifinals: Charteris Choppers Wairoa Athletic 40 Pango Productions Uawa 15; Roseland Tavern...
YMP and Waikohu will contest the 2023 Poverty Bay Premier club rugby grand final after contrasting semifinal wins at the weekend. East Coast Farm Vets YMP — the reigning champions — made no contest of their Civil Project Solutions semifinal...
If Minister of Corrections Kelvin Davis was evaluated by private enterprise on the results of the Chief Ombudsman’s report he would be unemployed. The buck stops with him. Ian Gaskin, Tuai
Just in time for the school holidays, the weather gods are finally offering more moderate weather for the next week. Apart from a few showers, the days through to next weekend should mostly be a welcome relief for a region in recovery mode...
A familiar voice of East Coast iwi radio will finally get a sleep-in after 27 years of early starts as Radio Ngāti Porou’s esteemed breakfast announcer. Yesterday, Radio Ngāti Porou breakfast announcer Kahu Waitoa — known by his community as...
Gisborne District Council is calling on expressions of interest for its new community-led recovery plan following severe weather across the region. The Recovery Coordination Centre — which was set up to ensure a coordinated recovery for...
Two of Gisborne’s favourite spots for recreation — the Makorori Headland reserve and Titirangi (Kaiti Hill) are closed until further notice. The Makorori Headland is unstable in multiple areas with slips causing subsidence. People are asked to...
Police on Thursday recovered the body of a man from a car that had left the Matahiia Road inland from Ruatoria and plunged into the Mata River. They were notified at around 3pm on Wednesday that a car had been seen in the river. Police said it was...
Trust Tairāwhiti chief executive Gavin Murphy is stepping down effective July 2023 after nearly six years in the role, says trust chair John Clarke. “After guiding the trust through the amalgamation of the trust to include the economic...
Gisborne District Council has confirmed two new appointments to the governance board of Trust Tairāwhiti “to take forward the good work of departing trustees Dr Jill Chrisp and Kristen Kohere-Soutar”. Mayor Rehette Stoltz acknowledged the...
Ilminster Intermediate School celebrated Matariki and the upcoming school holidays with a special assembly and concert designed to lift their spirits after what has been a tough term. The celebration focused on recognising the key values of Matariki...
Contrary to what a correspondent said on Thursday’s opinion page, there has not been an external audit of council and Civil Defence actions during Cyclone Gabrielle. An independent third party was commissioned to compile an event timeline, which...
Gwynne Dyer “I said to Putin: ‘We could waste (Prigozhin), no problem. If not on the first try, then on the second.’ I told him: ‘Don’t do this’,” said Aleksandr Lukashenko, long-ruling dictator of Belarus, clearly delighted at having...
The 50-metre pool at the Gisborne Olympic pool complex was heated again from Thursday after wood chip issues were solved, and pool management said the pool would reopen today. The water would be in a “cooler yet swimmable” condition over the...
June will long be remembered by Gisborne-East Coast folk as the month it forgot to stop raining. The past 30 days have been some of the most testing in the district’s history — Gisborne’s wettest June in 144 years, with rain on 20 of those...
A new initiative to help get patients from the East Coast to health appointments in Gisborne city starts on Monday. “There are not many places in Aotearoa that don’t have free health shuttles funded, so it felt like the East Coast was the last...
Two forestry companies and their directors charged by the District Council for alleged breaches of resource consents, revealed by storm events last March, have chosen to have their cases decided by juries. The companies and their respective...
A five-year-old boy stood screaming in fear as his father stormed about their house throwing items, pushing the boy’s mother, and whipping her with an extension cord. The woman had just arrived home from her nightshift work and had cooked...
A new video being launched in Gisborne tomorrow features Civil Defence messages in 21 languages. It is the brainchild of the Tairāwhiti Multicultural Council (TMC). The hour-and-a-half video features locals of different ethnicities, reading...
Kowhai House, Gisborne’s community immunisation centre based in Palmerston Road, closed yesterday. The hub started distributing RAT tests and Covid-19 vaccinations in 2020 and later became a general immunisation hub for the Tairāwhiti community...
A judge has been told how an 11-year-old boy, regularly beaten and whipped by his father, was removed from his family and sent to Weymouth Boys’ Home, where the abuse by people in authority continued and the boy's criminal offending began. That...