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Nature taking toll on historic site

Erosion at the northern end of Wainui Beach is the worst it has ever been and is starting to impact on the historic Whales Grave area. After the corpses of 59 sperm whales were buried there in 1970, the site was left to decline until 2013 when the...

Open win to Smith in all-BoP final

They’ll be back. The two men who carried out a Bay of Plenty takeover of the 2023 Emerre and Hathaway Poverty Bay Men’s Open are likely to return to the scene of their domination in six weeks time. Mark Smith, of Rotorua golf club Springfield...

First surfing comp for many

Raglan surfers Luca Thompson and Alani Morse won the two major titles at the primary school surfing championships that finished at Makorori Beach yesterday. Morse retained the Year 7 and 8 girls’ division title she’d won the previous year. For...

Gisborne Club Darts results

INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS 180s: F Waihape, P Waihape (2NZEF TAO Spartans); K Arahanga, H Ngarangione (RSA Stallions); I Eyles (RSA Gunz); T Irwin (Brezz’n Gold); R Leach, T Reeves (RSA Outlaws); C Reiri, G Vaotu’ua 2 (2NZEF Rebels); A Taukamo-Pohio...

Lawyer’s misconduct ‘high end’

Disgraced former Gisborne lawyer Chris Twigley, who was struck off seven years ago for misconduct, is applying to be reinstated. A New Zealand Law Society (NZLS) process notifying members of Twigley’s application to restore his name to the lawyers...

Gisborne teen into PB Open semis

Zach Rolls was happy enough just to have qualified for the top 16 at the Poverty Bay Open. This morning he teed off as one of the last four in the title hunt. The 18-year-old local pulled off two of the biggest wins in his budding career yesterday -...

A tax that would be welcome here

News that the Government is taking another look at introducing a sugar tax and salt limitations would be welcomed in this district. The information is contained in documents obtained under the Official Information Act for Radio NZ’s series OFF the...

Some of the worst ways to vote

Gavin Maclean There are lots of bad ways to vote, but the worst are for change, expediency and isolated single issues. They are insidious as they appeal to people who are otherwise quite clever and passionate. Expediency. I was shocked when someone...

Eastland Port Wharf 7 project wins Innovation award

The Wharf 7 rebuild at Eastland Port won the Innovation category at the 2023 Construction Sector Accord Beacons Awards held at Te Papa in Wellington. Port general manager of infrastructure and development Marty Bayley and members of the McConnell...

$15m funding to elevate homes and prevent flooding welcomed in Tairāwhiti region

The funding of $15 million to lift up homes in Tairāwhiti and keep them safe from future flooding has been welcomed by the region’s recovery organisations, that include Te Aitanga a Māhaki, Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Rongowhakaata, Ngāti Porou and...

Clocks forward tonight — check those smoke alarms

Daylight Saving starts this weekend. At 2am tomorrow it will be time to “spring forward” into spring and summer. Daylight saving starts each year at 2am on the last Sunday in September and ends at 3am on the first Sunday in April. It is advised...

Gisborne's Grey Street revamp set for November

A new-look Grey Street will be vibrant, colourful, safer for foot and cycle traffic and will connect the city to the sea by early November, That is when a Tairawhiti Adventure Trust-driven Grey Street Streets for People project is scheduled to be...

BoP boys serve notice

Bay of Plenty’s Mark Smith and Craig Van Der Nagel came to town to scope out the Awapuni Links course for the Freyberg Masters national interprovincial in November. They liked what they saw. Both men perhaps predictably qualified for the Keiha Cup...

Gisborne athletes on global stage

Individual wins to Midway’s Cory Taylor and Olivia Corrin and Waikanae’s Briana Irving and Michael Hanna highlighted the Kiwi effort on days 1 and 2 of the International Surf Rescue Challenge in the United States. The event is being held at...

Everyone’s a winner at Poverty Bay

Members of all bowling clubs had an opportunity to play in the Abraham Plate Mixed Open Fours on Poverty Bay Bowling Club’s new artificial green. On a beautiful sunny day, the winning team of John Kora (skip), Dawson Owen (director), Joan Gledhill...

Groms compete for school title

Over 80 frothing groms have descended on Gisborne for the National Primary School Surfing Champs, which started today. The annual event, a stepping stone to competitive surfing, kicks off a massive week for school-aged surfers. The National...