A NEW action plan has been launched designed to help manage parasite resistance to drenches in New Zealand. Encouraging the responsible marketing and sales of drench, more accurate and easier parasite testing, research to demonstrate the costs and...
JAMES Blackburne was an inquisitive child, always wanting to know how things worked.“I used to pull things apart,” says James, whose career in architecture took him in quite the opposite direction.“I got into trouble with my father when I took...
COULD the moody botanical artwork a Gisborne couple hung on their wall in TV reality show The Block have secured a win for Stu Watts and Amy Moore in the TV reality show’s first challenge? We’ll never know — but having been allocated the do-up...
CRICKET by Ben O’Brien-LeafBittersweet — the Poverty Bay boys’ junior secondary schools team were thrilled to play their last cricket game of the Northern Districts tournament at Rotorua’s chief ground, Smallbone Park, but disappointed to...
THE Gisborne-East Coast branch of the New Zealand Farm Forestry Association believes a field day tomorrow will benefit the whole commercial forestry industry when it comes to the right tree in the right place on East Coast steep hill country. The...
The Ministry of Education (MoE) has recently published a study showing that computer or tablet-based learning in Year 5 students reduces reading enjoyment, as measured by data from the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study. It also showed...
A report to the council’s Finance and Audit committee tomorrow says capital expenditure for the first six months of this financial year was $12.4 million against a budgeted $18m — 69 percent of what was forecast — while a net surplus of $2.8m...
“Residential schools” were a common feature of European settler societies (except New Zealand) until quite late in the 20th century, and their purpose was not just to educate but to “deracinate” their aboriginal pupils: that is, to cut them...
There is an important display at the Poverty Bay A&P Show this week that Tairāwhiti Civil Defence Emergency Management wants everyone in the community to see. It's an emergency pod — a six-metre shipping container packed with emergency equipment...
The region's Covid-19 vaccination programme will “stretch outside the national guidance” set by the Government and rural residents will not be disadvantaged, Hauora Tairawhiti board chairwoman Kim Ngarimu says. The vaccination of front-line...
There is a salutary lesson for us all in how our country and much of the world has responded to the coronavirus pandemic: that economies will be shut down to protect elderly and other vulnerable citizens from a highly-contagious disease that will...
POLICE made four arrests in the early hours of this morning after a dog team tracked down four people in relation to a stolen motor vehicle found in Gisborne city. The car was spotted in the city centre by a police patrol at around 2am.“The people...
A GradeIndividual highlights180s: Tahuna Irwin 3, Toby Ratapu (Falcons); Ihaka Kaio-Wynyard 2, Te Kotahi Kaio, Corey Kaio (Young Guns); John White 2 (Tigers); Matty Reedy 2, Junior Akurangi (Done & Dusted).Highest start, men (180): Junior Akurangi...
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GISBORNE will celebrate Chinese New Year this Sunday with a special get-together at the Chinese Hall on Disraeli Street. Attendees will bring a dish for a pot luck lunch to the celebration organised by the Gisborne Branch of the Chinese...
Saturday, August 62016 NZ Concert Band Festival, 9am - 4.30pm, War Memorial Theatre, $5. Gisborne Unity Theatreall-woman production of three short plays, including Towpath, Whether I Fall, and a devised work about women bringing up mokopuna. 3pm...
Ikaroa-Rawhiti MP Meka Whaitiri says the Government is backing regional New Zealand by continuing to create opportunities for rangatahi to get into employment, education or training. She was speaking after the Government announced the next tranch of...
COOLER, dry conditions dominated November’s weather in the Gisborne region, and the district remains on the edge of drought. Figures from MetService and Niwa (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research) show rainfall was half the 30-year...
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Vaccination providers say whānau efforts are behind Tairāwhiti's eligible Māori population inching closer to the 90 percent partially-vaccinated milestone. Turanga Health chief executive Reweti Ropiha said a range of whānau efforts were behind...
Tairawhiti youngsters will be snuggly and warm in their pyjamas over winter, thanks to the community's best-ever Jammies 4 June fundraiser. J4J Gizzy received 768 brand new pairs of PJs and over 200 other items, including blankets, beanies, socks...
Gisborne Speedway Club has nervous eyes on the heavens as it hosts the New Zealand sidecar championships, with rain likely to have an impact. A field of 30 bikes will contest the national sidecars title and the club has organised two nights of strong...
For the first time I'm aware, Whataupoko Reserve is closed to all walkers because the council's land clearing has stripped decades of stabilising vegetation. Mud has sloughed down slopes from 7kms of high-density cycle-trails. I would have thought...
MULTIPLE shearing champion John Kirkpatrick has bounced back to winning form after a year off with injury. The 45-year-old Napier gun returned to original home Gisborne territory to win a four-man, 15-sheep open final at the Poverty Bay Show on...
NEARLY 100 dogs have been desexed so far through the Fred Lewis Enterprise Foundation desexing project. Enterprise Motor Group last month committed to donating $600,000 over the next five years as the major sponsor of the foundation for the programme...
Seal season is here. Leave them to rest. That is the message from East Coast Department of Conservation. DoC biodiversity ranger Jamie Quirk says while seals are marine mammals, they spend a lot of their time on land, particularly between June and...
I would like the train back. I always used to see the train come to Gisborne and I am missing it dearly. I attend Rail Action Group meetings and I am a great fan of trains. I will never give up. There are too many trucks on the roads. They wreck our...
Thistle massive can almost put the champagne on ice after the penultimate Saturday of Gisborne Championship Division 1 football. Thistle drew with Wainui Demons 5-all on the field but won the match off it after Central Football upheld...
Re: Kind lady saved the day, December 3 letter. This is a really lovely story of what can happen in our little town. We would all agree, this is the difference between what we are and the other places around the world and New Zealand that are...
Covid-19 vaccination rates here are waning at the wrong time, Health NZ says. A Health NZ Tairāwhiti spokeswoman said there were 80 cases of Covid-19 reported on Friday, 33 on Saturday and 54 cases yesterday. Six people with Covid-19 were in...
A monthly series of concerts by musicians and student pianists has provided a welcome respite from winter chills at Professor Jack Richards' Okitu residence, Tiromoana. In conjunction with Musica Viva, the local chapter of Chamber Music New Zealand...
THE First Light Kai street food festival will be staged again in the New Year at the same time and the same place as the highly successful inaugural event in January this year. Businesses interested in being part of it have been encouraged to...
Even though there are no official meetings this week, there is a lot happening around town. It is all go with the resealing of Gladstone Road so, if possible, park closer to the town clock side of town this week and walk to the shops closer to Peel...
Hemi Porou is a familiar face outside Countdown where he regularly busks but if anyone marches to the beat of his own drum, guitar, double bass, euphonium, bagpipes, it is the Gisborne multi-instrumentalist. Hemi talks to Mark Peters about the...