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A history of catastrophic Govt policy blunders

COMMENT I agree with Manu Caddie (Gisborne Herald, May 16) that GDC has been caught between central government and th Dame Anne Salmond e forestry industry for generations. Wholesale land clearance of the highly erodible steeplands in Tairāwhiti...

Tairāwhiti performing artists now eligible for excellence awards

Talented young performing artists here can now join those across the country who are being offered a financial boost thanks to the Dame Malvina Major Foundation. The Foundation’s Arts Excellence Awards support young New Zealanders of outstanding...

Initiative wins Community Innovation category at BBNZ Awards

Gisborne Basketball Association’s Hoops in Parks Tairāwhiti initiative has been recognised at the 2023 Basketball New Zealand Awards in Wellington. The Kylie Turuwhenua-Tapsell-chaired GBA won the BBNZ Community Innovation Award. The initiative...

Wairoa's Gaiety Theatre projector is ready to roll

Movies will once again be back on the big screen with the Gaiety Theatre projector repaired and ready to roll. A technical breakdown with the Series 1 Christie projector meant the end of local movie screenings in August last year. Since then, the...

Gymnasts take flight for champs

A marah Cameron won all-round gold in her division and Sarai Gudgeon won silver in hers at the Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay Senior Gymnastics Championships in Napier. They were among Gisborne Gymnastics Club members competing from Step 4 to Step 7 in...

Double defeat for super vets

Eastland representatives returned to Gisborne with two losses after their first-round ties in the 2023 inter-association super veterans’ Division 2 badminton competition in Hawke’s Bay. They played Waikato and Hawke’s Bay. Eastland team...

Smash Palace seven-card Gisborne extravaganza marks NZ Music Month

Gizzy musos have collaborated to bring together seven acts for NZ Music Month this May. Smash Palace will host GizzyBorn a local artist showcase on Saturday night. Acts taking the stage are ‘The Voles’, ‘Natasha Lee’, ‘Levi Mackey’...

PRIMARY SCHOOL FOOTBALL DRAW

First Kicks 4v4, Watson Park , 8.30am: 1, Awapuni Green v Kaiti Paoa; 11, Central Tahi v Te Wharau Kereru; 2, Central Rua v Te Wharau Kiwi; 3, Central Royals v St Mary’s Asteroids; 4, Makauri Warriors v St Mary’s Stars; 5, Te Hapara Toru v...

BIZminton, week 2

The second night of the badminton business house league had results ranging from dominant wins to close encounters. In the competitive grade, Cuzzys had some tight matches against RSL51s, a team made up of super veterans. The score ended three...

Superior ends won earn Denham crew Craill Shield crown

It was great to see 48 players taking part in Poverty Bay Bowling Club’s Eric Craill Triples Tournament this month. The tournament was held at Kahutia due to cyclone damage to Poverty Bay’s artificial green. Winners of the Eric Craill Shield...

Lesser lights push guns

Solid but not startling wins for the front-runners marked the weekend round of the Poverty Bay hockey competition, while there were some good efforts by the lower-ranked teams. Ngatapa women got the ball rolling on Thursday night on the Hain Farming...

Baptism of fire for prem grade newbies Ngatapa

by Sherrill Beale Round 2 of Gisborne senior netball gets under way at the YMCA tonight, with one game set to be close and the other a test for one of the new premier teams. Whangara Old Girls take on Horouta Koura at 6pm in the...

Dame Lisa hails ‘amazing’ effort in World Cup first for Gisborne’s Hoskin

National champion, Olympian and now Canoe Sprint World Cup gold medallist. Gisborne’s Alicia Hoskin’s career reached another milestone with a gold medal-winning paddle alongside Dame Lisa Carrington at the International Canoe Federation Canoe...

Golfers chipped in for rescue chopper

In a time of rising costs golfers rose to the occasion to make last week’s Eastland Helicopter Rescue Trust Charity Golf Tournament a winning fundraising event. The annual tournament has traditionally raised around $10,000 to help EHRT support the...

Housing market in ‘steady as she goes’ state: Searle

House prices seem to have found a new normal after recent big drops, Gisborne realtors say. Latest data from the Real Estate Institute (REINZ) shows the region’s median house price is now $650,000, down 5.1 percent on the same time last year...

‘I want to unlock the kupu from my throat’: Witi Ihimaera

Ihimaera says the time has come to learn te reo fluently as he prepares to write new book.