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New trustees bring ‘considerable experience’ to cadets board

The Waipaoa Farm Cadet Training Trust has announced Jeremy Williams and Tim Rhodes will join the trust board. Board chairman Pat Sherriff said they had gained two highly experienced men in the New Zealand sheep and beef industry.“We are very...

Youthtown takes on Licence to Work

After six years in the region, a youth employability programme is changing providers. Licence to Work (LTW) is a cross-sector, business-led initiative designed to respond to business and industry concerns that young people may not be developing the...

Zalm deal brings Cann-do for Rua

A proposed deal to purchase Zalm Therapeutics Limited provides Tairawhiti-based Rua Biosciencewith a “great opportunity”, Rua chief executive Rob Mitchell says. NZX-listed Rua has entered into an agreement to acquire 100 percent of Zalm...

Trust survey on effects of lockdown

Trust Tairawhiti has launched an online survey to capture the impact this current lockdown is having on local business owners and operators. Accessible through the trust website, the short survey asks questions around the areas of business affected...

Record cruise ship visits booked for 2018-19

CRUISE ships visiting Gisborne last year added $3 million to the New Zealand economy and, with a record number of cruise liners waiting to visit, that contribution is expected to grow by another $10 million over the next two years. Eighteen ships are...

REDEPLOYMENT SUCCESS

Following the first economic effects of the Covid-19 lockdown last year, Tairāwhiti was the first region to get a government-funded recovery package. A year on, those involved look back at the success of the $23.755m Tairāwhiti Economic Support...

Chamber supports Government’s progressive procurement policy

Several weeks ago the Gisborne Tairawhiti Chamber of Commerce was asked to advocate against the Government’s Progressive Procurement Policy. We confess, it was something that we knew little about, so we chose to get ourselves educated. Thanks to...

Backing business growth, industry transformation

Economic and Regional Development, Forestry, Small Business and Tourism Minister Stuart Nash says Gisborne businesses will benefit from recent Budget 2022 announcements. Speaking to The Herald last week, Mr Nash provided details around how the $100m...

Draft tourism plan released

A PORTFOLIO of nearly 60 new commercial ventures has been put together to pitch the region to investors keen on cashing in on the popularity of tourism here. In the same week that Tourism Industry Aotearoa launched its local government manifesto...

Growing optimism as log prices lift

The forestry industry here and elsewhere round the country has started the New Year with a bit more optimism than it finished 2021, thanks to a small lift in log prices. In November last year the industry was said to be in “crisis” mode due to...

Gisvin among finalists for annual ExportNZ Hawke’s Bay awards

Businesses in Wairoa and Gisborne have been named finalists in the 2021 ExportNZ ASB Hawke's Bay Export Awards. Wairoa's NZ Mecates is a finalist for the ContainerCo Best Emerging Business Award, along with Wood Mallets (Otane), Kiwigarden...

Engineering scholarship deadline for applications fast approaching

Engineering students have only a few days to get their applications in for the 2022 Eastland Group Tertiary Engineering Scholarships. Each year, Eastland Group awards $5000 annual scholarships to several engineering students. They aim to continue...

To succeed, we need to unify

More than $150 million was earmarked for this region through the Provincial Growth Fund last year — but for the woman at the helm of the Tairawhiti PGF office, the fund is much more than dollars and cents. Senior regional official Apryll Parat...

Reach out for help; we will recover

by Paul Naske, Gisborne Chamber of Commerce president

China FTA upgrade to see tariffs come off wood and paper exports

Tairawhiti's forestry industry is welcoming an upgrade to the New Zealand-China Free Trade Agreement. The upgrade comes into force on April 7, Minister for Trade and Export Growth Damien O'Connor confirmed last month after New Zealand and Chin...

Mayor promotes trade with China

MAYOR Meng Foon has signed a memorandum of understanding with Chinese sister city Rizhao, where he says exciting and low-cost opportunities exist for Gisborne businesses.“If anyone is keen, contact me,” he said. Mr Foon spent three days in Chin...

Gisborne Fisheries brings the seafood home

FROM two fish shops to a fleet of boats and a processing, live lobster storage and distribution plant, Gisborne Fisheries is a family business whose founders came to New Zealand from the volcanic Sicilian island of Stromboli. The conical island off...

Gisborne spending continues above average

GISBORNE continues to stay above the national average in retail spending. New figures released by Paymark, which processes 75 percent of all eftpos transactions, show Gisborne increased 7.4 percent from the same time last year with $46.2 million...