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DIY smoke alarm advice next week

DAYLIGHT Saving is just around the corner, and Fire and Emergency NZ and the Bunnings store in Gisborne will run DIY workshops on smoke alarms during the weekend of the changeover. The initiative will provide information and advice on how to select...

Flooding response heart-warming

Neighbours, friends and strangers banding together to quickly get sandbags in place to protect homes from rising floodwater at Sponge Bay, along with the surf life saving emergency squad evacuating some residents in IRBs, made for dramatic and...

ABs manager to speak here

LONG-serving All Blacks manager Darren Shand is coming to Gisborne. Shand, who has been manager of the national side since 2004, will be “in conversation with Steve Smith”, the manager of the Poverty Bay Heartland Championship squad. The event is...

Seeing red — tomato harvest under way

Cedenco Foods NZ have started their annual tomato harvest and expect to get into swing of it from now on.“We started for three days last week, stopped, started again yesterday, and we expect continuous processing from now on,” said general...

Three shot in Elgin

Girl, aged 12, among seriously injured

Force is strong in this family

A GISBORNE family cannot wait to be one of the first worldwide to watch the new Star Wars movie. The Solomon family of four will dress up as famous characters for the premiere of Star Wars the Force Awakens in Gisborne tomorrow night. The plot is...

Concerns for missing woman

POLICE have appealed for sightings of a Tauranga woman and her vehicle that was found abandoned on State Highway 2 in the Waioeka Gorge on Wednesday afternoon. Rebekah Storey, 29, was reported missing that day. Police and her family have serious...

Two ways of saying 'drive safely'

GISBORNE road users will get a taste of te reo Maori with new road safety billboards up to celebrate Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori, Maori Language Week. The signs are a reminder to stay safe on the roads and are a collaborative initiative between Tairawhiti...

Well Wahine Week

Week-long line-up of 53 female-tailored activities and workshops

Tapping community workers to control weeds?

COMMUNITY service workers could play a role in tackling Gisborne’s weed problem, a district councillor has said.“I have spoken to people at community services, and heard they often struggle to find tasks for [community service workers] to do,”...

Latest tensions in Middle East a worry, rare good news from Iraq

Rising tensions in the Middle East might seem half a world away but the New Zealand Government will be keeping a close watch on them as it considers the situation of troops sent to Iraq last year. The deployment of 143 New Zealand troops in...

‘Positive’ talks with MAR objector

The Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) trial on the Poverty Bay Flats was discussed in a recent Stuff article that described MAR as “the new buzz phrase in the search for answers to New Zealand’s twin problems of increasingly scarce water and...

Pharmacies responding to demand for vaccinations

Some of Tairāwhiti's general practices and pharmacies are now giving Covid-19 vaccinations. Hauora Tairāwhiti vaccination programme manager Lisette Hayes said City Medical and Bramwells Pharmacy are providing vaccinations.“Three Rivers is due to...

Firefighters answer call to burning toast

FIREFIGHTERS were called to a house in Karamu Street in Elgin last night after a neighbour heard smoke alarms going off inside the house and raised the alarm. The call came in at about 9pm.“The house had smoke in it that had been generated by the...

Proceeds ‘payout’ won’t happen . . .

In answer to a correspondent's question about proceeds from a sale of Eastland Network, your editor agrees that the Trust Tairawhiti model of building up capital and investing some of that over time in identified regional needs is better than...

Flowers add colour to Gisborne races

A LOT of hard work and a few sleepless nights went into the dazzling flower displays at the Poverty Bay Races on Sunday. Gisborne florist Michelle Elliott said it was a lot of work but worth the effort now the event is over, and she is getting lots...

Word on the street

If you had a chance to make any Christmas wish, what would it be?

Bub Wehi laid to rest at Waihirere

“A MIGHTY Totara has fallen”, this was one of many comments online as the news of Doctor Ngapo Wehi’s, QSM, passing spread this week. Mr Wehi, or Bub as he is known, was a kapa haka legend, credited with bringing kapa haka into the mainstream...