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Premier wins to Whangara, YMP
The top two teams in Premier Grade netball reinforced their standings with Wednesday night victories in the YMCA. Second-placed Whangara Old Girls saw off Gisborne Girls’ High Senior A 50-41 in a close Pak’nSave Premier contest. Competition...
Semifinal showdowns
It is the business end of the Poverty Bay Premier club rugby competition and a new ball game for the four teams hunting Lee Bros Shield glory. The Civil Project Solutions Premier sudden-death semifinals take place tomorrow with back-to-back action...
Pyjamas lift spirits at Riverdale unit
It’s not only bananas that love their pyjamas. The children of Riverdale School Special Education Centre think theirs are cool, too. These pyjamas — packed in three banana boxes — came all the way from the South Island . . . Blenheim, in fact...
Stolen items filled two trolleys
A woman has admitted using stolen order books to charge nearly $34,000 worth of power tools and other items to a local building company, staff at stores where she shopped unwittingly helping her in the process. Natasha Miringaorangi, 35, entered her...
‘Go well over winter’ agency’s wish
Te Whatu Ora-Tairāwhiti has launched their Go Well winter campaign. Its three main messages are ■ Stay home if you’re sick or isolating for Covid-19. ■ Wear a mask in crowded spaces. ■ Choose the best healthcare options. Choosing the best...
Huringa Pai awarded $83k in trust’s funding round
Huringa Pai, a whānau-driven movement to help people make positive changes to improve their health received the largest distribution in the latest funding round from Trust Tairāwhiti. More than $117,000 was awarded to four community groups, with...
Tears over swim class contract
A disappointed Comet Swimming Club remains adamant it should have been awarded the contract for learn-to-swim lessons at Kiwa Pools ahead of a billion-dollar Australian company. Club general manager Rochelle Somerton, speaking at Wednesday’s...
Te Karaka iwi grateful for extra clean-up funding
Te Aitanga a Māhaki iwi say they are thankful for the latest announcement of extra support to help remove sediment and debris off whenua Māori, and that it will help keep the people and homes of Te Karaka safe, This is the latest Government...
Allan rejects bad workplace claims
East Coast MP back at Parliament after mental health break last week, confirms relationship break-up East Coast MP Kiri Allan, under fire following allegations of bad working relationships in her office, has defended herself vigorously against what...
Burials in limbo
Taruheru Cemetery remains closed for burials due to the high water table levels there in almost all of the cemetery zones. Many areas of the site had lakes of surface water in the wake of the latest heavy rains, and that includes areas of land set...
Council's annual plan reflects impact of weather events, with funds “reprioritised” for recovery and clean-up work
Gisborne District Council adopted the 2023/24 Annual Plan at its meeting on Wednesday. The document outlines where the council’s funding in the next financial year (July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024) will be spent. Chief executive Nedine Thatcher...
Gisborne residents grapple with red and yellow-stickered news
Sarah Hunter was woken by a huge thump on Sunday morning when a massive pūriri tree on her riverside property fell off a cliff and into the river. On Tuesday afternoon the family got the dreaded news their house had been red-stickered. A total of...
Quinn in hospital after wipeout at Mahia
Kiwi surfing icon Maz Quinn is recovering in hospital after he was dashed against the rocks in a dramatic wipeout at Māhia yesterday. Quinn shared news of the accident on social media, revealing that he suffered spinal injuries in the accident that...
Time and place, or not engaging?
Regarding criticism by the council chief executive of our lead story on Saturday, which contained criticisms of council-led Civil Defence Emergency Management at a time it was dealing with a State of Emergency, we accept she makes fair points and...
Need to ease back — no quick, easy solutions
Roger Handford One of the hardest, basic lessons to learn in tackling the planet’s environmental problems is, first, DO NO HARM. In blunt terms, that means doing absolutely nothing that will make the situation worse. Humans everywhere are still...
Thank you, arohanui to all
I would like to say a very big thank you to the person who handed in my credit card after I dropped it in the Pak’nSave carpark. God bless you for your kindness and honesty. Also, thank you to all those who are working so hard to keep this...
Rep golf in Gisborne next month
Poverty Bay-East Coast contenders for national interprovincial tournaments will get a welcome taste of top-quality matchplay in Gisborne next month. Wellington and Hawke’s Bay masters squads will be coming through for a 54-hole quadrangular...
Six Gisborne clubbies in Battle of the Tasman teams
Surf Life Saving New Zealand (SLSNZ) has named the Junior Black Fins and New Zealand Pathway teams for the inaugural Battle of the Tasman and six members are from Gisborne clubs. The event is to be held on the Gold Coast from August 24-27. The...
Golf Roundup
POVERTY BAY BARNS-Graham Cup favourites are about as clear as the mud covering golf courses throughout the district after another rain-pummelling over the weekend. It’s take 2 in the Gisborne Motors BG Cup men’s pairs this weekend after the...
Students embrace skimboarding at flooded Watson Park
Watson Park is better known as a football venue and golf practice area but in the wake of last weekend’s rain which flooded highway-side areas of the beachside reserve, a group of Gisborne Boys’ High students used it for a sport more commonly...
Salute to national, local volunteer effort
East Coast MP Kiri Allan has acknowledged volunteers helping out in Tairāwhiti’s latest weather event. which coincided with National Volunteers Week last week. “It’s a special week to honour the collective energies and mana of volunteers in...
Man accused of threatening Gisborne Work and Income staff makes rude gestures when judge refused bail request
A man accused of threatening Gisborne Work and Income staff by pointing finger guns at them, has made insulting hand gestures to a judge who refused to grant him bail. Joseph Hone Tamihana, 30, a fisheries worker, is yet to plead to a charge of...
Two choose trial by jury
Two men accused of threatening a woman for drugs and cash, one of them allegedly pointing a shotgun at her head while she was holding a baby, have chosen to be tried by jury. Raniera Tekooti Reuben, 31, and Tuhaka Takarua, 29 , were called...
Beginners’ guide to 3D printing
An education package focused on teaching 3D printing and entrepreneurship was a big hit with students from Te Kura - The Correspondence School. They learned to design and make their own 3D objects. A colourful array of imaginative 3D designs...
Back to blended water after repair
The Waingake water supply for Gisborne city was reinstated yesterday and the city was again being supplied from both Waipaoa and Waingake treatment plants. An update from the council’s water team early yesterday afternoon indicated contractors had...
Rescue Helicopter team joins forces with Hear4U to deliver relief boxes to rural communities
The Trust Tairāwhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter team made space for some “awhi” (relief) boxes, courtesy of Gisborne mental health advocacy group Hear4U this week. The boxes were left with whānau in need or in places like community centres or...
Gisborne hospital working on wait times
Nearly 2500 people are on the waiting list for a first specialist assessment at Gisborne Hospital. Interim lead, Hospital and Specialist Services, Tairāwhiti, Lynsey Bartlett, says waiting times for planned care treatment are “longer than we...
Sped along Transmission Gully then furious at being stopped by police
Caught speeding at 177kmh through Wellington’s Transmission Gully, a man flew into a rage and threatened police who stopped him, then had to be pepper sprayed. He was found to be carrying a used meth pipe. Wi Mahuika Thomas, 32, was in Gisborne...
Engineers assess land movements on Tauwhareparae Road, physical works unlikely before summer
The two massive land movements that have impacted Tauwhareparae Road at the 18km and 37km marks have been assessed by engineers, but the council said in a statement yesterday that it was very unlikely that any physical works will start until summer...
Disruptions over three years prompt high school boycott
Students from Lytton High School’s Activism in Action class will take a stand tomorrow against the constant disruptions to their education they have experienced in the past three years. They believe it has had a negative impact on their studies...
Jukes plead not guilty
Cartage and building supplies company M E Jukes & Son has pleaded not guilty to a charge arising from the death of its worker Maurice Dooling. Mr Dooling, 47, was operating a waste shredder at the company’s Stanley Road premises, when his legs...
Funeral hearse hit by slip on State Highway 2, driver survives close call
A staff member from Evans Funeral Services had a lucky escape early on Monday morning when the hearse he was driving was hit by a slip on State Highway 2 in the Whareratas. The man was heading to Waikato Hospital via Taupo to pick up a deceased...
July 13 last day for voters who want to switch electoral rolls
Time is running out for East Coast and Ikaroa-Rawhiti voters who want to change rolls for the 2023 general election. Voters of Māori descent can choose to go on either the Māori roll or general roll when they first enrol to vote and can change...