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Hunting licences on sale

Licences for the 2019 game bird hunting season are on sale from today. A hunting licence means people can hunt waterfowl including ducks, along with upland game birds such as pheasants when the season starts on Saturday, May 4. Licences are available...

Business and Professional Women keep flame alive

THE Gisborne branch of Business and Professional Women (BPW) celebrated its annual candle-lighting ceremony this week. Members lit coloured candles, displayed on a decorated table, to represent the members and countries that have BPW affiliation. BPW...

Expanding chamber changes location

JUST a month after appointing its first chief executive, Gisborne Chamber of Commerce has announced more changes. For the past nine months, the chamber has been based in the Tairawhiti Business Hub in Childers Road, along with Activate Tairawhiti...

Put them back

Regards the boats, why did we not have all this fuss at the time of the originals going up? Come on council, get some spine. Put them back. Mike Scandlyn

Change ahead for more liberal NZ

Two of the biggest conscience issues of all for politicians, abortion and euthanasia, will be voted on in the near future. Our Parliament has also shown backing for the legalisation of medicinal cannabis and MPs are working out details, while...

Moving to the right side of history now

Re: Sestercetennial hijacked, April 9 letters. The serial writers of both articles are well known for their right-wing, scaremongering racist views. In the early 21st century there has been a tectonic-like global shift in the way historical issues of...

Tairawhiti celebrates Diwali festival of lights

People of Tairawhiti will once again be entertained by Indian cultural performances, henna art, bouncy castles and free Indian food as the Gisborne Indian community prepares to host the annual festival of lights celebrations. The event will be held...

Date set for update on Olympic Pool

AN update on the Olympic Pools Complex redevelopment will be presented at the Sustainable Tairawhiti meeting on March 18. Gisborne district councillor Pat Seymour asked for an update during an operations committee meeting. She noted “the...

PB Hunt's fundraising trek on Te Hau Station was a big hit

MORE than 80 riders took part in the Poverty Bay Hunt’s 15th annual trek last weekend based at Te Hau Station woolshed at Whatatutu, with riders from all over the North Island. The riders travelled from as far away as Northland, Otaki, Hawera and...

Gisborne Hospital busy but planned care proceeding

Gisborne Hospital has been “pretty full” in the last three weeks. That is how Hauora Tairāwhiti chief executive Jim Green described the hospital in his final report to his board as the country's 20 district health boards were incorporated into...

Age no barrier to veteran clubbies

SURF lifeguards of all ages from 30 years upwards took to the water at Midway Beach today in the New Zealand Masters Championships — among them veterans aged in their late 60s and 70s. The day-long masters competition included the full array of...

Impact spoilt by silliness

I watched the TV1 programme “That’s A Bit Racist” on Sunday night, with the hope that I might learn something. One segment asked the public, at random in the street, if they knew who was on the $5 note and then asked who was on the $50 note...

Eternal Verities: Gizzy-borne

Writhing in rhythmDivining in vines’Tween Mary Christ-massAnd New Year timesThe town is buzzingWith out-of-town classFrom young hippie campersTo “Golden Princess” cruisersAt the busy harbourTraffic flows smoothlyBridge-borne...

Parking, isolation: Simple

Two letters on Monday (Gisborne Herald, July 10) took my attention. The subjects of parking and the rail link were mentioned. The cost to ratepayers for modern “smart” meters is out of all proportion to the benefit. The parking regime should be...

Driver crashed into police car

A DRINK-driver deliberately steered at speed towards a police car, momentarily taking his foot off the accelerator before crashing into it and causing nearly $10,000-worth of damage, Gisborne District Court heard. Two police officers were in the car...

‘We live in a pretty lucky country’

B+LNZ extension manager Mark Harris had a special festive season message in his final e-dairy of the year yesterday that bears repeating in FOL — “This morning as I walked towards Midway Beach on a beautiful Gisborne morning, I reflected on what...

Tribute to Tokomaru Bay photographer

This year's Tokomaru Bay wharf restoration fundraising calendar is dedicated to the late Jill Carlyle.“The photos will either be of her or by her, in her memory,” said Tokomaru Bay Heritage Trust volunteer and historian John Robinson. “She had...

Pay hike for ECT’s trustees reduced

A requested pay rise for trustees of Eastland Community Trust (ECT) has been trimmed by $33,000 by Gisborne District Council. Instead of the $283,000 total trustee fees pool requested by the trust, the council has set a new maximum of $250,000. The...