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Footpaths a nightmare for disability scooter riders

The challenge has been issued. Long-serving disability advocate and former deputy mayor Nona Aston has challenged Gisborne district councillors to ride her disability scooter on a city footpath. She told councillors some carriageways and footpaths...

District council systems frustrate trust as Grey Street project drags on

The Tai Uehā Grey Street project is behind schedule and Tairāwhiti Adventure Trust blames Gisborne District Council. The trust’s Amy Spence, speaking to the Gisborne Regional Transport Committee hearing on the Regional Land Transport Plan...

Community comes together in a kaleidoscope of culture at Colour Run for Diversity 2024

Nature provided a perfect autumn day at Marina Park on Saturday for the much-anticipated Colour Run for Diversity 2024 hosted by Tairāwhiti Multicultural Council (TMC). Several hundred eager people of all ages, and from a variety of cultural and...

GP funding crisis: Three Rivers underfunded by more than 200 percent

The GP sector is in a crisis with practices such as Three Rivers, which serves a high-needs population, underfunded by more than 200 percent.

Gisborne Herald 16.04.24

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Fought 52mm crayfish concession for 20 years

Alain Jorion Re: Stop the 52mm concession, April 11 letter. I have agreed with Merv’s comments about the useless dreams people have about rail travel between Wairoa and Gisborne, owing to soil type that rose from the sea. Far inland, I have...

Real opposition needs to stand up

Everyone has moved on from the 2023 election result, apart from the Labour Party it seems. The coalition Government has not only laid out its programme for its first 100 days in office, knocking off each point, it has also put up a 36-point...

Meeting obligations . . .

I write regarding councillor attendance records. Is there a problem on council with attendance and are the percentages mentioned in the paper acceptable? Surely not a scandal? At what stage does non-attendance become an issue that requires remedies?...

Near miss with speedy dirt bikers

While walking our small dog the other afternoon down by Mitre 10, we were overtaken by three very speedy masked dirt bikers who rushed past us and disappeared over the foot bridge. Could have been catastrophic for us all. So we are pleased to see...

Black Fern Holmes joins First Fresh team

Gisborne-based produce company, First Fresh, has announced that Kiwi rugby star and hometown girl Renee Holmes will be the company’s first brand ambassador. The new two-year deal starts just as the 2024 fruit supply season gets under way. It is...

Safer, higher crossings at some roundabouts

Raised pedestrian walkways, described as tables or flat platforms, are being constructed at some of Gisborne’s roundabouts, where pedestrian use is high. Gisborne District Council has asked drivers to be courteous at the raised table crossings...

Developing young leaders

From learning to surf to a police-led team challenge . . . 60 students got to try their hand at a range of activities during a leadership wananga hosted by Ilminster Intermediate this week, Student leaders from Taupō, Taradale and Northcross...

'Consider the children' - plea at regional transport hearing

A dad and surgeon is urging Gisborne’s council to consider the safety of children who commute to school after witnessing too many “near misses”.

Weekender 13.04.24

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Gisborne Herald 13.04.24

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Surprise support from Act, NZ First

When Green Party MP Teanau Tuiono started promoting a member’s bill that could lead to the reversal of a decades-old law many regard as a historic wrong against Samoans, people expected it to fall at the first hurdle — the first reading in...

Madness it seems has taken its toll

Matthew Roderick It’s astounding! Time is but fleeting and madness it seems has taken its toll. Such a mind flip, we seem caught in a time slip . . . . There has been mention in The Herald that “drag” entertainment does not belong in libraries...

War memorials vary a lot

In reply to a query from Barbara Barwick as to why there are different postures for the soldiers depicted on the Patutahi and Gisborne war memorials. There is an excellent book on the subject of New Zealand’s war memorials by Jock Phillips titled...