Cultivating Marjoram in your garden brings a delightful blend of fragrance and flavour to enhance your culinary adventures. Marjoram has beautiful fragrant leaves that can be used in cooking. It’s said to help with toothaches and is also made in...
Gisborne woman Suzy Malseed tells John Gillies about life, family and freediving as she returned from South Korea to her home in Victoria, Australia. A 46-year-old mother of twins was New Zealand’s sole representative at the AIDA Freediving World...
Ngaere Shelton chats to the Herald’s Loren Sirl about living life on the East Coast. It was the early 1950s when a young Ngaere Shelton (nee Gore) arrived by service car (a large bus) into Tolaga Bay. She described the moment she laid eyes on the...
YMP women set the tone for their men in the curtain-raiser to the Poverty Bay Premier club rugby final on Saturday. YMP and Waikohu women went head-to-head in their first 80-minute fixture of the season at Barry Park — hosts YMP winning 20-0. The...
Time and tide wait for no man, and footballers have no special privileges. Players who in their prime seemed indestructible grow old and die, like the rest of us. Word comes from Australia that a titan of the Gisborne City defence of the mid-1970s...
Horouta Koura produced probably their best result of the season so far in pushing Premier Grade table-toppers YMP (1) all the way at the YMCA on Wednesday night. YMP won 43-39 while Horouta earned themselves a richly deserved losing bonus point. As...
A team of Waikanae racers will be in action next week in the Australian inflatable rescue boat championships at Kingscliff Beach in northern New South Wales. The championships start on Thursday and go for four days. Kaiaponi Farms Waikanae’s well...
Gisborne’s Kelsey Teneti got the second start of her international rugby 15s career for the Black Ferns this morning in their Pacific Four Series clash with the United States in Canada (8am kick-off NZ time). Teneti, 20, was on the wing for her...
Chris Hipkins showed once again how focused he is on trying to stay in government when he followed the lead of Sir John Key and Dame Jacinda Ardern in ruling out a policy, that he knows has merit, any time under his leadership. In this case it is...
Who does Prime Minister Chris Hipkins think he’s fooling, that a redistribution of wealth in our country is not a priority? Jordan Walker, Greeen Party candidate for East Coast Is equity not a priority Chris? What about pulling people out of...
Gwynne Dyer “I was there when the Anthropocene was born. It was so amazing,” said Dr Katherine Richardson, leader of the Sustainability Science Centre at the University of Copenhagen. It was in 2000, at a meeting of the International...
The Earth could fit into our Sun 1.3 million times. Human beings don’t even register on the scale of the universe. We are but a flicker of consciousness in the vast, unfathomable void of space. But this flicker of consciousness has the ability to...
Heather van Wyk’s call for a gallery dedicated to the museum’s permanent collection of art is an excellent one that will be supported by many people in this district. The topic arose from time to time in my years on the Museum Board and...
Re: Eastland Generation seeks 50 percent capital partner, July 10 story. The proposed strategic capital raise to help fund the expansion of Eastland Generation’s renewable generation portfolio and Trust Tairawhiti’s involvement is intriguing...
Applications for the latest round of the Tū Manawa Active Aotearoa Fast Fund have reopened through Sport Gisborne Tairāwhiti. Tū Manawa supports costs for projects that encourage children and young people who have barriers to being active. For...
Months on from Cyclone Gabrielle, a Whakatāne-based LPG supplier is still playing a critical role in keeping stranded Tairāwhiti communities supplied with LPG bottles — a vital energy source, especially when power is down. Bob’s Gas works...
A national award is icing on the celebration cake for YMP Hockey Club as it marks its centenary this weekend. The New Zealand Amateur Sport Association yesterday announced that YMP was the 2023 winner of the Te Tohu Tikitike o Matariki Award. The...
by Loren Sirl Keen birdwatcher and former wildlife ranger Sandy Bull described his excitement at spotting the rare northern shoveler recently at the Orongo Wetland at Nick’s Head Station. The rare visitor was spotted on July 7. “I was very...
Recognising the stars of Aotearoa was the focus of Wednesday night’s Ngā Tohu Matariki o te Tau 2023, the Matariki Awards. Tā Haare Williams (Te Aitanga a Mahaki, Rongowhakaata, Ngāi Tūhoe, Te Whakatōhea) was awarded the Te Huihuinga o...
The Court of Appeal decision on the gold kiwifruit issue was “a very significant decision and it is good to have clarity around this issue”, said Gisborne District Council chief executive Nedine Thatcher Swann. In a decision released this week...
Gisborne District Council has labelled the projected 218 percent projected price increase for households under the relaunched three water reforms as “quite frankly, very disturbing”. The council submission to a parliamentary select committee on...
Some places are still available for people wanting to be part of the Tairāwhiti Mentoring Initiative, a fully funded nationwide governance programme designed to improve governance on community boards. The inaugural programme last year was so...
Honours for Tairāwhiti tāngata fostering Māoritanga in IT and digital projects Tairāwhiti tangata were celebrated at the inaugural Te Matihiko Awards, the Aotearoa Māori tech awards, for their mahi across a range of digital kaupapa. The awards...
Four Gisborne motels, residents park paid over $1m from emergency accommodation grants in 2022 Some Gisborne motels are still earning more than $1 million a year providing emergency accommodation for the Government, despite a drop in grants and the...
After another bout of severe weather on June 22, Gisborne farmer Sam Gemmell was without power and completely cut off again. The only road access from his family homestead to Wharekopae Road is via a bridge that was wiped out by Cyclone Gabrielle in...
by Murray Robertson Vortex Power Systems (VPS) is pressing ahead with its project to develop a world-leading alternative electricity generation system. Construction on the Whangara test site will start once ground conditions dry out. The...
Aside from my support for Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Aotearoa — against Japan’s release of Fukushima radioactive-water discharge plus the retention of our nuclear-free Pacific policy — I write this for Hiroshima Peace...
The Labour Party must be really excited that a gang boss has instructed their 800-odd members to vote for Labour in the coming election. This is obviously a reward for the $2 million Labour donated to the Mongrel Mob and their recent tea party with...
Gisborne Girls’ High School First XI went close to pulling off the upset of the season in Poverty Bay women’s club hockey when they met YMP A in a catch-up game on Tuesday night. Defending champions YMP won 2-1 on the turf at Harry Barker...
Head coach Miah Nikora has named his Poverty Bay Wekas 2023 Heartland Championship squad including two new caps and some players who were unavailable last year. Nikora said he was really happy with the squad and building on the foundation laid last...
The shortest day was three weeks ago and Gisborne Thistle get their first home game of the season tomorrow. Their Central Federation League match against Palmerston North Marist at Childers Road Reserve at 2.45pm will be the first of seven home...
PAK ‘n SAVE Gisborne Netball, SATURDAY, Seniors — Duty teams to put up goal pads, set up team benches (courts 1 and 2) and put bins out: YMP Hine Taiohi Whakato & ATS OBM Blue 9am: 1, YMP Hine Taiohi Whakato v ATS OBM Blue (Kaki, Tessa); 2...
The quest for the Rangiora Keelan Memorial Shield for 2023 ends this Saturday when Hicks Bay take on TVC in the final of the Ngati Porou East Coast Premier men’s club rugby competition (2pm kickoff, Whangaparaoa). Hicks Bay last weekend turned the...
Poverty Bay’s 2023 development squad, Tūranga Tāne, features a balance of experienced and new players. A number of players narrowly missed out on selection for the Bay’s Heartland Championship squad but still have an opportunity to step up to...