Huge weekend of vaccinations as outbreak intensifies

Yesterday morning on TV1’s “Breakfast” we saw news presenter Hillary Barry seriously step over the mark in her position, which cannot be biased at all. Television news presenters have an important job to do. Freedom of speech is a most...

GISBORNE'S housing market is out of an enforced lockdown and with just nine houses sold last month, realtors are prepared for change. Latest data from the Real Estate Institute New Zealand shows sales fell to single figures in April while the...

We have just listened to an interview of Colorado author Ben Cort talking with Bob McCoskrie. This issue of legalising marijuana is full of lies — lies of ommision. We are not being informed of the huge increases in the THC of plants today. In the...

The founder of The Kids Music Company will be in Gisborne next week to give teachers of 2 to 5 year olds, and parents and caregivers with children in that age range, the opportunity to discover the value of music as a motivator. Janet Channon’s...

A LATE penalty by midfielder Grant Jones won the Poverty Bay Cup for United (3) at Childers Road Reserve on Saturday. It was the start of a good day for team coach Chris Adams. He hit the winning spot kick for United firsts in the Bailey Cup penalty...

Re: ‘Undermining democracy', Jan 13, and ‘We want to see equity', Jan 14.A big shout out to Josh as well as Aimee Milne, Lara Meyer and Maree Conaglen — mighty waahine toa who have publicly expressed their condemnation of and opposition to the...

Final figures for export trade through Eastland Port last month show a total of 273,042 tonnes of logs shipped from Gisborne in July. The wood went overseas on 11 ships during a month when loading was disrupted by bad weather. The cart-in rate of logs...

Well, 7000 Auckland screamers say the country can’t have Guy Fawke’s sales of fireworks any more, as the 1.5 million of them bludging off the rest of the country for their roads etc want this. What is so wrong with this picture?Well, I’m sick...

Budding creatives from Gisborne Intermediate have been busy writing, filming and editing promotional videos to show off the tourism potential of Gisborne for TV One's current affairs programme Seven Sharp. The year 7 and 8 students have submitted...

Frustration with local Government was a big issue for about 70 people who attended an open conversation with Minister for Crown/Maori Relations Kelvin Davis at Manutuke last Saturday. Manutuke township was the seventh of 16 places a hui was held as...

A crowd of around 180 attended the First Fresh “Freshies” awards in the NZ Fruits packhouse in Lytton Road last Thursday night, and were throughly entertained by special guest, comedian Ben Hurley. Waerenga-a-Hika grower John Macpherson took home...

STU Blair and his good Marist mate Kevin Ford were tired but still joyous after the All Blacks’ successful defence. Following the semifinal victory against the Springboks, Stu detoured off to Poland. There he enjoyed the attractions of Krakow and...

A woman likened her partner to a caveman when she described to Gisborne District Court how he bit off part of her cheek during an assault. Aaron Ross Groube, 30, was jailed for 25 and a half months after pleading guilty to a reduced and...

Firefighters battled a large shed fire on a property at Waerenga-a-hika on Friday night and the cause is yet to be determined. Fire and Emergency NZ sent six appliances to the scene after the fire broke out at around 6.30pm on a property opposite...

A SECOND trial burn of tree debris on the Tolaga Bay beachfront last Friday was so successful, the decision was made to continue with the fan-burning technique this week. Tens of thousands of tonnes of forestry slash, logs and other debris on the...

Re: Up for the challenge, August 30 comment. Hmmm, so Bob was born before 1907 when the first plastics were invented? I didn’t realise he was as mature in years as that. With the impending abolition of the so-called single-use bags, our plastic use...

The arrival of Eastland Port's new tugs from China — the Ika Nui and the Maki — has resulted in new duties for previous harbour tugboats Waimata and Titirangi. The port company has sold Titirangi alongside port vessel Rere Moana and...

A second negative Covid-19 test from Gisborne City wastewater samples this week is a huge relief, coming after the sewer valves were closed so encompassing the city's whole wastewater catchment again. The negative results this week indicate that...

Councillor Foster, in the Monday column, gives figures for the additional costings for the Endeavour models which included $8000 plus GST for resource consent. Really? The models are a community enterprise supported by the council. Many in the...

Children, parents and teachers at Sonrise Christian Pre-School have celebrated an “absolutely wonderful” 10th birthday. This month marks a decade of operation for the pre-school and the milestone was marked this week with a fun day of pony rides...

A GISBORNE winery, and a sheep and beef farm have been named among five finalists for the 2017 East Coast Ballance Farm Environment Awards. The awards will be presented in Gisborne at the Bushmere Arms on March 1, where the regional supreme winner...

The compilation book featuring the work of Colin Wheeler - “Historic Sheep Stations of New Zealand” - was won by the Willis family from Ngapuke Station at Rere and congratulations to them. Thanks to all those who entered the draw. Between 1967 and...

RYAN Majstrovic won’t like me calling him “Mr High School Old Boys” . . . but it’s a title he fully deserves for the amount of work he does for a club that once dominated local cricket. In recent seasons, as Tamarind HSOB struggled to reach...

Laksa is a nutritious and flavourful Malaysian recipe with heaps of variations. I adapted the recipe to local ingredients and came up with a thick, delicious and spicy soup to ward off the winter chills. Fish stock2-3 snapper heads and...

TAIRAWHITI Roads has lodged applications worth more than $10.6 million with the New Zealand Transport Agency to fund emergency repair work on the district’s roads and to buy additional heavy metal for unsealed roads. The largest application of $9.1...

“A goat track” was a Patutahi resident’s description of Knight Road. She outlined her frustration at the state of the road at a Gisborne District Council community meeting attended by nine residents. Knight Road is on the outskirts of the...

After five years on the Kapiti Coast where she ran the successful Salt Shack Surf School, former national surfing champion Holly Quinn has set up the school in her hometown of Gisborne. Holly and brother Jay — members of one of New Zealand's most...

The Government finds itself thoroughly on the back foot over its Health and Safety Reform Bill — facing ridicule in fact, which is a great pity because reform is badly needed. Problems for the Government and its embattled Workplace Relations...

A woman already warned several times by police for breaching Covid-19 lockdown conditions, was charged with obstruction under the Health Act after further flouting the rules. This time she was discovered in the early hours of April 24, driving in...