by Lara Meyer Re: Education more important than inflation, housing, crime — May 6 column. Dear Tim, Education is very important to ensure that our young people are equipped to engage in a functioning democratic society. You seem to have failed to...
Ikaroa-Rawhiti MP Meka Whaitiri further outlined her reasons for leaving the Labour Party yesterday but seems to have left at least one major query unanswered. On TVNZ’s Breakfast Whaitiri said she “didn’t feel heard” within Labour, but the...
The Poverty Bay Dog Trial Centre will have 10 competitors in action in the grand final of the season at the Tux South Island and New Zealand championships later this month. The event will be hosted by the Warepa Collie Club, near Balclutha, from May...
Week 1 of the BIZminton business house league went off with a blast last week. The social grade made up of many new players featured two draws. Woolie Jumpers drew 3-all with newcomers Turanga Health. Jumpers won on a countback of points —...
Gisborne Intermediate hosted the interschool lightweight rugby tournament last week and it did not disappoint. Eight teams competed in the under-48 kilogram competition which is into its 14th year. Schools travelled from Te Puke, Tauranga, Mount...
Netball The netball draw for Saturday — PAK’nSAVE Gisborne Netball, senior challenge round. Premier/Prem Reserve games are 4 x 15-minute quarters. All other games are 4 x 10-minute quarters. Duty teams to put up goal pads, set up team benches...
YMP A’s iron grip on the Poverty Bay men’s hockey title does not appear to be loosening. It is only two weeks into the senior club competition but already the A Team are setting a benchmark of quality, as Gisborne Boys’ High School experienced...
Gisborne Bowling Club combinations won the women’s and men’s junior champion of champions pairs titles contested on the Kahutia Bowling Club greens. Karen Pinn (skip) and Adrienne Torrie beat Tolaga Bay pair Delores Woodcock (s) and Jacqueline...
Premier grade rugby takes a break this weekend as the annual Town v Country weekend makes a return. Poverty Bay Rugby Football Union has announced the squads for the Saturday match-up to be played at Paddy’s Park in Patutahi, 2.45pm kick-off. The...
Saturday was a great one in Ruatoria as the the Ngati Porou East Coast Premier Men’s club rugby season opened with Club Day at Whakarua Park in Ruatoria. Defending champions Tihirau Victory Club beat powerhouse Tokararangi 15-12, Hikurangi...
River silt and sediment from Cyclone Gabrielle has had a major impact on whānau homes and the township, Wairoa District Council says. Around 12,000 tonnes of silt has been stockpiled with much more silt removal needed, especially from under houses...
A community project at Makaraka this weekend is aiming to fill 10,000 sandbags for Tairāwhiti. The joint initiative between Gisborne District Council and the Rapid Relief Team (RRT) has attracted a “groundswell of awhi”, says Tairāwhiti...
A Gisborne woman on a mission to prevent a law change that would prevent her importing life-saving medication says she’s humbled by the response to her petition. Theresa Zame is seeking as many signatures as she can to amend the Therapeutic...
A recidivist shoplifter who successfully appealed a jail sentence when it was imposed on her four years ago continues to offend. Ereti Lara Hinaki, 32, pleaded guilty in Gisborne District Court on Monday to three thefts from shops involving goods...
Neil Kitchen has for years played in the Eastland Helicopter Rescue Trust’s annual Charity Golf Tournament. Not with any success, he admits, and not thinking he would ever use the rescue service himself. That was until December 2019 when he was on...
A Life Membership Award was presented to Norman Grey in recognition for his services to U3A over 13 years . A certificate and bouquet of flowers were presented by U3A president Anne Pardoe to Mr Grey at Gisborne Cosmopolitan Club last month. “From...
Two storm-chasing satellites were successfully put into orbit from Mahia yesterday. It was the first of two planned launches from Rocket Lab’s Mahia space port to deploy a constellation of tropical cyclone monitoring satellites for NASA. The...
Three months on from the devastation caused by Cyclone Gabrielle, Wairoa and Napier will be reconnected when State Highway 2 reopens on Sunday. For now, the road will only be open from 7am to 6pm. A blessing of the new Bailey bridge by Ngāti...
The bull sale season is “looking good” after the second day of the three-day East Coast Angus Association Bull Walk. Yesterday about 150 animals from Kaharau, Orere and Tangihau and Tawa Hills studs were paraded in front of potential buyers...
More than $2.1 million has already been paid out from the $3.4 million of donations to help our region recover from Cyclone Gabrielle. Mayor Rehette Stoltz thanked everyone who applied for financial help and managed to get the quotes they needed...
This funnel cloud was seen over the hills to the northwest of Gisborne at the weekend, and lasted for several minutes. Funnel clouds are formed by rotating air movements, which pull down a moisture-laden column from the bottom of a cloud mass
Clive Bibby Nothing compares with music or a beautiful sound given life by a gifted singer in times when we seek inspiration from a world that appears to offer none. While many will have taken other special moments from King Charles’ coronation...
YMP delivered their best performance of the season to blow away OBM 52-7 in a top-of-the-table premier club rugby clash on Saturday. Defending champions East Coast Farm Vets YMP made it five wins from five matches in this battle of unbeaten sides to...
Ngatapa were tested but eventually outlasted High School Old Boys in a premier club rugby game at the Oval on Saturday. Larsawn Ngatapa won 42-26 in a hotly contested match from which both teams were clearly hungry to gain maximum points . Ngatap...
by Sherrill Beale Ngatapa will join YMP (2) in the Challenge round to help determine the last two places in Gisborne netball’s Premier Grade. They will be joined by the bottom two teams from the first round of Premier Grade play — Gisborne...
The World Health Organisation said on Friday that Covid-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency, marking a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies and killed millions of...
The folly of hitching oneself to the prevailing popular narrative wagon is that your position quickly becomes unstuck. So entrenched and righteous in your stance, you fail to appreciate the consequences of often short-sighted views and actions. And...
Our local rural roads are rapidly falling in to disrepair as a result of many years of inadequate maintenance and increased heavy traffic, especially logging trucks. Some of these roads are now dangerous to drive on, especially at night and when it...
For royalists as well as many people who are ambivalent about royalty, Saturday night’s coronation of King Charles III was well worth sitting up into the early hours of Sunday morning for. The pageantry surrounding the event is what sells it to...
Imagine exchanging slash for cold hard cash. Slash for Cash is a local and upcoming eco-startup that aims to encourage people to bring in slash and turn it into products that can “heal the land”. “It’s an opportunity for community members to...
Trainee and student builders are continuing to deliver the goods by providing quality new homes for those in need. In recent weeks Kāinga Ora has continued to take delivery of new homes built by students of trade academies here and further afield...
Gisborne District Council has dropped all water restrictions. “It’s been a tremendous effort to get to this point and we would like to thank you all for playing your part,” a GDC statement said on Facebook. “We encourage you to continue to...
Gisborne Girls’ High student Te Paea Maurirere took the top prize in this year’s regional heats of the Race Unity Speech Awards. Organised by the New Zealand Bahá’í Community, the speech awards have been running for 23 years, helping...
A man suspected of attacking Wairoa veteran Denis Andrews with a wooden pole during an alleged early morning home invasion, can now be named. Iwitoa Gemmell, 28, was arrested last Monday and charged with aggravated burglary and wounding with intent...