Canoe sprints by Sally Cameron Poverty Bay Kayak Club racked up a huge medal haul at the National Canoe Sprint Championships on Lake Karapiro last week — with 28 of them gold. Three days of racing brought together all the clubs and New Zealand...
Against the wind . . . . The 100th regatta for NZ’s oldest yachting trophy, the Sanders Cup, at the Javelin National Championships off Kaiti Beach here this week, produced its first trophy winner on Thursday. Phil McNeill from Kerikeri and Hamish...
Unlock the secret to effortlessly vibrant gardens with euphorbia — easy to grow, stunning to behold. Unlock the secret to effortlessly vibrant gardens with euphorbia — easy to grow, stunning to behold. There are many, many different perennial...
There had been question marks revolving around Christopher Luxon’s style of leadership. Would he be like the CEO — which he was — answerable to a board and shareholders, or would he adopt a similar stance of former political leaders, who...
A real groovy pension, but plenty of tension You fly cheap for your life, don’t see much of the wife You’re boss of the caucus, but it gets kind of raucous You’ve got all sorts of wheezes, have to put up with greasers You can be stabbed in the...
More and more bull breeders have been using genetic tools, according to the latest research for the Beef + Lamb New Zealand-funded Informing New Zealand Beef programme (INZB). According to the survey, one in five commercial beef farmers now use...
There were no prime sheep or store ewes in the weekly sheep sale at Matawhero yesterday, just 1021 store lambs — mostly ewe lambs — and only two vendors. Prices eased slightly on those paid last week. The top price of $95 went to the Matuku...
by Tiny Thompson Last year Gisborne District Council, together with Tairāwhiti Adventure Trust, received funding from Waka Kotahi/NZTA’s Streets for People initiative. Under this initiative, one of the changes proposed restricts Kahutia Street...
Gillian Cowperthwaite learns more about the flourishing group for seniors that is Gisborne’s U3A. Gisborne’s U3A is a thriving chapter with 422 members, in a global movement which had its beginnings in France in 1972. The first New Zealand group...
The Tolaga Bay dog trial club ended the Poverty Bay Centre’s club season last weekend at Mangaheia Station and the event wins were shared around. Event one, the longhead, was taken out by Graeme Cook and Glen with a score of 94 points. The...
by Takoda Ackerley Regarding the Maxim Institute. In his opinion piece “Un-civil religion at the end of the rainbow”, Josiah takes a concerning stance regarding civil protest and the constitution of secular civil life. Brown, in his discussion...
by Martin Hanson Three recent publications have shed light, rather than heat, on the vexed issue of transgender. The most recent was the April 10 publication of the final report of the Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and...
This Saturday is World Tai Chi/Qigong Day and local instructor Walter ‘Wiz’ Walsh invites interested members of the public to join him for a free session of the ancient Chinese practice on the grass in front of the Lawson Field Theatre from...
Gisborne police have made a plea for information that may help them with an investigation into a report of a sexual assault near the boardwalk on the city beachfront on Tuesday. The incident happened at around 5pm. “The suspect has been described...
A month on from the deaths of two men at a birthday party in Elgin, the man heading the homicide inquiry into the tragedy says police continue to make “solid progress” in their investigation. Kane Te Paa and Chrysler Stevens-Mark died following...
Rocket Lab successfully launched its 47th Electron rocket at 10.32am on Wednesday and deployed satellites to orbit for Nasa and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). The mission, launched from Rocket Lab’s Māhia launch...
A prominent business family implored Gisborne District Council to use “commonsense” and consider “the CBD’s vibrancy” during the local alcohol policy hearings on Wednesday morning. The McCann family submitted and presented three...
Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki described the cancellation as a 'victory'.
Mayor Rehette Stoltz, speaking at yesterday’s Anzac Day dawn and civic service, said the ceremony was an opportunity for a region which has “gone through so much” over the past 14 months to “stop, reflect and encourage each other”. It was...
There’s no question economic conditions are tough, but we need to keep them in historical perspective. We shouldn’t let an undue sense of doom and gloom make things worse than they need to be. Next week, we’ll see how much damage the recession...
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Gisborne’s world champion sprint kayak paddler Alicia Hoskin is officially on her way to her second Olympic Games with New Zealand’s strongest kayaking team. The New Zealand Olympic team has named its largest-ever women’s canoe sprint team for...
Senior netball returns tomorrow at Victoria Domain and the premier clashes will be highlighted by the game between TR Builds Horouta Koura and Claydens Waikohu (1). The 10am match features the two unbeaten teams in premier grade so far this season...
Allan Nairne is rarely lost for words. But when Electrinet Park bestowed life membership on him on Sunday in what had been a carefully planned, almost covert operation, he was gobsmacked. “It blew me away. I had no idea,” said Allan, who joins...
MĀhia Fairways past and present will be walked this weekend when Māhia Golf Club celebrates its 50th anniversary. Stories will start flowing tomorrow at a 9-hole competition from 3pm followed by a meet and greet at 6pm. Saturday features 18 holes...
The premier rugby competition leaders have the bye and everyone else has to get a win while they can. Kahu Scaffolding Tapuae will take a hard-earned break and the other six teams in Civil Project Solutions Premier Rugby must strike while the...
The season proper is up and not so much running as purring contentedly in the Sky Blue Union. Both the Heke-O-Te-Rangi Blackbee Contractors Ngati Porou East Coast men’s and Enterprise Cars NPEC women’s club competitions produced juicy fare on...
Hatea-a-Rangi Memorial Domain was a happy place on Saturday. The beating heart of rugby in Tokomaru Bay was the venue for two fast and furious games at the weekend, with a gutsy Waima side making last year’s beaten finalists Tihirau Victory Club...
In my opinion, we are losing the mainstays of a healthy society such as quality healthcare and good law and order. The administrators in these areas claim that Covid, environmental problems and the general world situation are responsible for our...
Re: Developing a vibrant city centre in the digital age, April 24. Your correspondent made interesting suggestions of ways in which to develop a vibrant city centre, with which I agree. However, such ideas are difficult to implement when one must...
A sad day for Tairāwhiti to see The Gisborne Herald finally succumb to the pressures of the modern world. A massive thanks to the Muir family for a great little newspaper, once perfect in every way, but now a shadow of its former self. Because of...
We should have a Rail Action Group meeting to get the railway line fixed. We need a march down the main street with big signs to get the trains back. I am missing them badly. May Ruby
Gisborne hip hop dancers Kylah Ashwell and Paul Hawaikirangi aka 98 Cents won the open duo division at the New Zealand Hip-Hop Dance Championships in Auckland last weekend, fulfilling a long-held dream to compete in the national competition. As well...
Due to popular demand, Frances Hodgkins, Anything but a Still Life will have an encore screening at The Dome Cinema on Sunday at 6.30pm. Director Blandine Massiet du Biest, who was in Gisborne for the first screening, was thrilled to get a full...