As an “Ask Me” volunteer for the cruise ship passengers yesterday, we received so many compliments about Gisborne it made you aware of just how lucky we are to live here. While I thanked him personally, I would also like to acknowledge the part...
It has been a “wow” week for SuperGrans Tairawhiti. In response to its appeal for duvet inners and outers to help people struggling financially keep warm this winter, more than 100 duvets, pillows and other items of linen had been...
Love all the new plantings going on around the district. Could the council please tell us where these plants have come from? I have a sneaking suspicion they have not come from local growers. Am I wrong?Wendy LintonFootnote from GDC contracts and...
GISBORNE teenager Daeleigh-Michelle Waihi is looking forward to her first trip overseas — to an Australian softball tournament at which she will compete this month. The Lytton High School student is in a New Zealand academy under-14 girls' team...
The state of civil defence emergency for Tairāwhiti will be reviewed later today as the weather eases back to a few showers forecast for the next few days. MetService predicts showers today, becoming isolated tonight. The forecast shows possible...
Just as the ball seems to follow a fielder in a cricket match, the political spotlight followed Labour Cabinet Minister Andrew Little last week and the focus was not always welcome. Little's main portfolio of health was in the news during a week in...
Enabled Wairoa has attracted national attention with its multipronged approach to addressing social issues, specifically its housing strategy. Green Party Associate Minister of Housing (Homelessness) and Minister for the Prevention of Family and...
CREATIVITY is not optional, but crucial, say the Jarratts and they have created a programme to fuel it. They just need the community’s help. Jarratt Create and Educate is husband-and-wife team Ellen and Peter Jarratt, who are originally from...
Granny Dear agrees to share the chocolate chippie recipe she’s been making for 60 or so years. Justine Tyerman tells the story of the famous biscuits . . .When the bride-to-be requested chocolate chippies for her wedding last year, her grandmother...
AFTER 14 years as a stay-at-home mother of four, Bronwyn Scanlan wanted to help other people’s children too. Now she is an EIT Bachelor of Nursing graduate and has secured her dream job at Gisborne Hospital, starting next week. When her second...
Episode 2 of The Block NZ and thank God for “Gizzy Hard” couple Amy Moore and Stu Watts. Without their combined wit, banter and antics, last night’s show would have needed a defibrillator or LSD-laced muffins. The Block NZ is a Mark...
CRICKET Time is precious — and short. Four father-son combinations made the most of a rare opportunity to play club cricket regularly together this season. The Trowells (Malcolm, 42, and Nathan, 14), Fosters (Mike, 41, Matthew, 15, and Dylan, 13)...
The region's fire authorities have no plans to scale back fire restrictions in the wake of the solid falls of rain around the district this week. Before the rain the fire risk had continued to rise steadily across Tairawhiti.“The rain has been...
Three months is all that 33 wannabe boxers have to be fighting fit for the Life Education Trust’s Fight for Life extravaganza 2018. Event organiser Anelia Evans said the group had cleared the first hurdle after 58 applicants initially put up their...
A special magic shone out of a collaborative production of dance, music and spoken word at the Lawson Field Theatre yesterday. Called Tukutuku, the show lived up to its title as Gisborne Girls’ High School special needs students, students with...
Hundreds of Maori leaders and education influencers are at the Maori leaders conference, Te Eketu o te Rangi, which opened at Te Poho o Rawiri Marae yesterday. Rangatahi (youth) are a target audience for the conference, which aims to “inspire and...
Forestry industry among businesses that can reopen under Level 3 conditions
THE woman who died in a crash ?on Friday afternoon on State Highway 2 near the Mohaka viaduct at Raupunga, south of Wairoa, was 65-year-old ?Judith Shadbolt from Wairoa. The car she was driving left ?the highway and crashed into a ?bank. She died at...
SIXTEEN-year-old Amber Phillips is showing the type of football ability that thrust her father Neal into a champion Gisborne City team straight from school. Amber lives with her parents Neal and Wendy in Ashhurst, just outside Palmerston North...
GISBORNE Thistle AFC chairman Ronnie Young will meet with Team Gisborne board members next week in the hope they reconsider their decision to withdraw the Pacific Premiership champions from the 2016 competition.“Failing that — and I’m speaking...
HIGH School Old Boys, Horouta and Old Boys Rugby opened their DJ Barry Cup campaigns with comfortable wins in the 40-over competition at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday. In the match of the day, Bollywood Stars HSOB beat Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates...
It's time to play catch-up. With round-robin play concluding last Saturday, only one competition game will be played tomorrow ahead of next weekend's semifinals of Enterprise Cars Ngati Porou East Coast club rugby. Hicks Bay will be at home to Pango...
Gisborne trampolinists, tumblers return from NZ nationals with medals galore
Safetree has appointed Wade Brunt, a passionate forestry veteran, to help get forestry workers more actively involved in improving health and safety. Mr Brunt started working on Monday in his new role as Toroawhi, which means “together we create...
Re: November 7 letter. Martin Hanson continues to feel threatened by those who acknowledge that there is a loving Creator who made us for Himself. He has a plan for our lives which belong to Him. Those who believe in the Creator know where they have...
Tairāwhiti-based medicinal cannabis company Rua Bioscience has signed an agreement with European distributor Motagon to become its preferred Australia/New Zealand supplier of medicinal cannabis products. Rua Bioscience chief executive Rob Mitchell...
A couple of “hell” up-and-downs proved vital as Dion Milner put his name on the Tolaga Bay honours board yet again on Sunday.“Coastie” Milner beat Bruce Yates 3 and 2 in the senior men's final of the club champs. He led 2-up after 18 holes...
Deane Smart’s letter in The Gisborne Herald of June 6 denigrating the NZ Drug Foundation demonstrates to us a complete lack of understanding of the problems that have been caused as a direct result of prohibition. The one thing we would agree on is...
SECOND-generation surfers are among the competitors in the 30th edition of the National Scholastic Surfing Championships that got under way at Makorori Beach, Gisborne, yesterday. Junior surfers from around the country have come together for the...
APPLICATIONS are now open for this year’s Prime Minister’s Science Prizes, worth a combined total of $1 million. Five prizes will be awarded to members of the science community that showcase talent, passion and high achievment in their...
Pat Seymour, chairwoman of the War Memorial Theatre Trust which drove fundraising for refurbishment of the Lawson Field Theatre, and former Gisborne Mayor Meng Foon share ribbon-cutting duties at the reopening of the theatre on Saturday night. The...
TAIRAWHITI reo was central to the Matewa Media’s Maori language version of Disney’s musical fantasy-adventure film Moana, says Wharekahika (Hicks Bay) born musician Rob Ruha. Ruha was musical director of the te reo version of the 3D...
NGATAPA loose forward Chase Sheridan has been named in the Heartland under-19 rugby squad. Sheridan, the Poverty Bay u20 captain, is one of 25 players selected from across the Heartland unions for the Jock Hobbs Memorial Tournament, which starts in...