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Poverty Bay - East Coast golf roundup
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Poverty Bay - East Coast golf roundup

PatutahiBRIAN Wallace and Rae Burgess headed off clubmates Joe Blair and Helen Humble for top dog honours in the Patutahi open closing day tournament on Sunday. Both pairs returned 44-point Canadian foursomes stableford hauls but Wallace and Burgess...

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The case for congestion charging
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The case for congestion charging

I have very strong opinions on transportation and believe there is a strong case for congestion charging. Road congestion is an indiscriminate global “pandemic”. Here in Aotearoa, over just the past decade we have one million extra cars on our...

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‘This is why we race’
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‘This is why we race’

PROVING yourself at home is one thing. Stepping up to the proverbial plate 11,000 kilometres away and smacking one over the fence is by far another. Gisborne cyclist Callum Gordon did just that with his thrilling victory in China’s Tour of Salimu...

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Opening up
Gisborne Herald

Opening up

From being an addict to becoming a committed leader in the social services sector, 59-year-old Tuta Ngarimu continues his fight against meth addiction in the community. Reporter Akula Sharma attended one of his support group sessions at Puna Ora in...

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Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association results
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Turanganui a Kiwa Darts Association results

180s: T Irwin (2), J Ngarangione (2), J White. Most 100s (24): T Irwin. Highest start (180): T Irwin. Highest finish (120): C Te Moni. Falcons 16 Tigers 5: T Irwin 180 (2), 140 (4), 138, 130, 121, 117 (2), 100 (24); J Ngarangione 140 (2), 128, 125, 115...

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Keep business out of education
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Keep business out of education

Re: Springboard Trust and the Global Education Reform Movement or GERM. Some local school principals are participating in a mentoring programme meant to help principals develop leadership skills and strategic plans. The principals are mentored by...

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What October did to the weather
Gisborne Herald

What October did to the weather

A SHIFT in the weather over October has made a big difference to the Gisborne district’s climate picture, except in the one crucial area of rainfall. Just one decent delivery of rain of rain over October topped up the soaking of September, but...

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Wrong to scare customers
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Wrong to scare customers

Re: Designed to handle jolts, February 27 letter. You are correct Rex. The council’s building consents manager is a very nice bloke but as I understand, from when I contracted to council, he is not an engineer himself. And the Mayor is a great cook...

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Bill Carson double All Black
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Bill Carson double All Black

DOUBLE All Black William (Bill) Nicol Carson was born in Gisborne 100 years ago today. The rugby and cricket international who played the willow-on-leather game for Poverty Bay aged just 15, was a member of the New Zealand cricket team to tour...

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Fee refund?
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Fee refund?

I see the Government has decided to award NCEA to students who didn’t pay their fees, back to 2002. I have no problem with that, but just need to know where I apply to get the fees I paid, for my kids, refunded. A. Abbott

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Totally agree
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Totally agree

Re: Roger Handford letter – September 20. Spot on. Totally agree!“The media should keep strictly to being opinion takers and reporters.”Julian Tilley

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The conductor
Gisborne Herald

The conductor

Te Wharau School student Ayden Manuel conducted Gisborne International Music Competition musicians in a community engagement event at the school yesterday. Students and staff enjoyed a performance featuring double bass, tuba, trombone, cello, violin...

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Pastures new for museum moggie
Gisborne Herald

Pastures new for museum moggie

A friendly cat that popped in daily to visit Tairawhiti Museum was even able to open the automatic doors by herself. The bold cat would wander about the museum’s exhibition spaces before visiting Exhibit Cafe, where she made herself comfortable on...

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Eyeing a water opportunity
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Eyeing a water opportunity

The chamber is involved in a project that has the potential to bring significant benefit to our region via the horticulture sector — a feasibility study around re-useable water (wastewater).To date there have been many meetings and much research...

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Tyndall Road garden flourishes
Gisborne Herald

Tyndall Road garden flourishes

A FORMER horse paddock in Kaiti has been converted into a fully-operational garden in nine months. Soraya Pohatu and her Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT) horticulture students are proud of what they have achieved at the Tyndall Road Community...

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Don’t forget Makaraka
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Don’t forget Makaraka

Re: Company seeks consent to establish truck depot at Matawhero, July 20 story. So AF Thompson trucking at Makaraka has a “shabby compliance record”.As this firm and another are responsible for their machinery spreading muck throughout Makarak...

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Keeping our history alive
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Keeping our history alive

Reporter Murray Robertson speaks to members of the Tokomaru Bay Heritage Trust about their determination to restore the wharf at Tokomaru Bay. The Tokomaru Bay Heritage Trust is determined to continue its work to get the money needed for the...

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Keeping dogs away from kiwis
Gisborne Herald

Keeping dogs away from kiwis

NZ Landcare Trust have teamed up with Eastern Whio Link and River of Man Adventures to bring a series of free kiwi aversion training events to the Gisborne region. Following on-farm kiwi surveys, the organisations found a small, fragmented kiwi...

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Master carver of the house
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Master carver of the house

Ngati Porou master carver Lionel Matenga talks to Shaan Te Kani about his latest project, and his journey in the Maori art form . . .Before Lionel Matenga entered the realm of whakairo, his journey started off much like an untouched timber...

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Central and local direction required
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Central and local direction required

Local and particularly central goverment are the key players in whether the district’s rail line will be restored because this is a political decision. Despite the suggestion of such, there is no private enterprise putting its hand up yet for the...

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Our planetary emergency ignored
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Our planetary emergency ignored

Rapidly increasing “events” are largely treated as isolated and unusual. However, the patterns show the opposite: more wild weather fluctuations with massive downpours, increasingly powerful winds, extreme temperatures, uncontrollable “wild...

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Brewing up a cold one
Gisborne Herald

Brewing up a cold one

Aaah beer! The hot summer months are here when a crisp cold one really hits the spot. Boutique beers are everywhere at the shops, often with a confused wall of people starring at the chiller — which one? Others confidently walk right up to a box...

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Tourism spend now has to be maximised
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Tourism spend now has to be maximised

The front page of last night's paper would have caught the attention of all those with an interest in Gisborne's economy and many ratepayers who have questioned value-for-money in current tourism marketing spend. No one actually in the tourism...

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Wainui surf break in NZ research
Gisborne Herald

Wainui surf break in NZ research

Wainui surf break “Pines” is one of seven in New Zealand to be the subject of a scientific study during the next three years. Researchers from Raglan firm eCoast Marine Consulting and Research will gather data on the break — including wind and...