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HSOB and Ngatapa put to the test tomorrow
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HSOB and Ngatapa put to the test tomorrow

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...

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Coast season opens with a drawn game
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Coast season opens with a drawn game

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...

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Tasty try fare in Toko’s two
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Tasty try fare in Toko’s two

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...

Challenge to make it work
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Challenge to make it work

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 final meal of own words
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A final meal of own words

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...

Let’s march
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Let’s march

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

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Gisborne dancers among best in NZ
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Gisborne dancers among best in NZ

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...

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Repeat screening of Hodgkins doco
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Repeat screening of Hodgkins doco

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...

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HSOB have first points on table
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HSOB have first points on table

The Blue and Whites have their first win of the season. Earthworks Solutions High School Old Boys, under captain and halfback George Halley-Donnelly, beat Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates 34-17 at the Oval on Saturday. A side who copped the tough Tapuae...

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Javelins ready to fly
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Javelins ready to fly

Pieces of the puzzle are clicking into place for organisers of the 100th edition of New Zealand’s oldest sailing trophy event, which starts in Gisborne tomorrow. Gisborne Yacht Club is hosting the 2024 Sunshine Brewery Sanders Cup and Javelin...

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Tapuae take down champs
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Tapuae take down champs

Is being on top in Week 3 a good thing? The mountaintop of Civil Project Solutions premier club rugby is where Kahu Scaffolding Tapuae now find themselves in the wake of their 17-14 win against two-time defending champions East Coast Farm Vets YMP...

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Crusaders should not be dismissed
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Crusaders should not be dismissed

Sport is tumultuous by nature and often knee-jerk reactions dominate the headlines. In the case of the Crusaders’ faltering start to the Super Rugby Pacific season under new head coach Rob Penney, the criticism has been swift and loud. Yet, amidst...

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Waikohu pull out a big one
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Waikohu pull out a big one

The country derby between Te Karaka’s finest and their hosts at Patutahi was a Saturday square dance, barn-raising and hoedown rolled into one. GT Shearing Waikohu’s 22-18 victory over Larsawn Ngatapa in Civil Project Solutions Premier Rugby saw...

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Gisborne lifeguards on Aussies’ podium
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Gisborne lifeguards on Aussies’ podium

Waikanae surf lifeguards Oska Smith and Seven Mapu, along with Olivia Corrin from Midway, won medals at the Australian surf lifesaving nationals on the Sunshine Coast. Smith won silver in the U19 men beach sprint and, with Mapu from Kaiaponi Farms...

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Poverty Bay/East Coast rugby scoreboards
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Poverty Bay/East Coast rugby scoreboards

Poverty Bay Week 3 PREMIERS Kahu Scaffolding Tapuae 17 (Tatana Smith, Iowane Filimone, Rana Hubbard tries; Paoraian Manuel-Harman con) East Coast Farm Vets YMP 14 (James Higgins, Nehe Papuni tries; Mitchell Purvis 2 con). HT Tapuae 5 YMP 0. GT...

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Goal rush overwhelms Thistle
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Goal rush overwhelms Thistle

For 34 minutes it seemed as if Gisborne Thistle might frustrate Palmerston North United at Childers Road Reserve on Saturday. But in the 35th minute, centreback David Lava swung a leg in an attempted tackle on PNU striker Benjamin Mori, missed the...