When 36-year senior firefighter Dave Covell made his retirement speech last weekend he thanked his mates for their comradeship and Fire and Emergency NZ for the opportunity to serve his community. The 68-year-old veteran reckoned it was time to...
Two Gisborne teenagers will make their men’s national interprovincial debuts on one of the country’s most famous courses. Zach Rolls and Marcus Gray have been named in the six-strong Tairāwhiti team to compete at the interprovincials being...
Electrinet Park The club just can’t catch a break. The weekend rain once again resulted in heavy surface flooding and the course being closed. However, greenkeeper Pete Tamatea said on Facebook on Tuesday that the water was “draining away...
Tairāwhiti waka ama paddlers have been honoured at the 2023 Māori Sports Awards held in the Bay of Plenty at the weekend. Hine Brooking (Ngāti Porou, Rongowhakaata, Ngāti Tūwharetoa) was honoured as an individual Māori world champion, and the...
Reserve Bank governor Adrian Orr surprised markets yesterday by dissuading them of any cuts to the official cash rate (OCR) next year and leaving the door open to a further hike in interest rates if inflationary pressures turn out to be stronger...
This never-ending nuisance of forestry slash must stop. What other industries are allowed to discharge their waste products into the environment? Surely it should be possible to establish regulations that require the logging companies to process the...
For the first time a faith pavilion will be part of COP28, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, to inspire ambitious goals and call for concrete commitments on climate change. The Pope is attending the opening. Shane Goldie, a 22-year-old...
by Hamish Barwick Three years ago, Glenn and Carolyn Prebble on the Whakarau Road took the plunge into running Cashmere goats in their sheep and beef operation and are now reaping the benefits of weed control, Cashmere fibre and meat. The...
A Gisborne district councillor has called the local authority’s risk management practices into question, earning a request to apologise in the process. At Tuesday’s audit and risk meeting, Colin Alder said the council needed to add “another...
The clean-up of debris on the city beaches brought in by the weekend storm was likely to begin today or tomorrow, with contractors to initially clear driftwood away from in front of the Waikanae and Midway surflife saving clubs. The council...
Even before Lynne Martin was found guilty of murdering her father Russell Allison, police were getting ready to recover $225,000 she received from his estate after he died. Martin, 63, was found dead in a police cell the morning after jurors...
Tolaga Bay Area School junior students came to town this week for a careers day outing. They visited The Gisborne Herald where managing director Michael Muir gave them a tour of the business. “What a great opportunity for our tamariki to visit...
Learning Support students and teacher aides are well ahead of their fundraiser target in the Cancer Society’s Marathon for a Month. The Gisborne Girls’ High School group can often be seen walking on the return trip from the Beacon car park to...
Former Gisborne district councillor Meredith Akuhata-Brown says the National-led Government’s referendum policy on Māori wards shows it “panders to the few that don’t really like Māori”. The new policy restores the right to hold referendum...
The fourth cruise ship visit to Gisborne this season went off without a hitch yesterday when the National Geographic Orion came calling again. Orion nosed alongside the new Wharf 7 at Eastland Port at around 6am yesterday and stayed until about 6pm...
Clinical trials of psychedelic medicines are on the cards for the middle of next year, as the marae-led project to cultivate Psilocybe weraroa clicks up another gear. The native fungi was discovered by chance on whenua within Rangiwaho Marae. It...
'We are part of the problem and a massive part of the solution' — Eastland Wood Council chair.
“Revisiting these events and the trauma related to the cyclone will be challenging for some and, as an important reminder, there is support available to those who may need it: hbemergency. govt. nz/cyclone-gabrielle-review/where-to-get-help
She ploughed through the gates of a business in a stolen vehicle, drove dangerously, taunted and assaulted police, threw rocks and threatened to blow up Gisborne police station. Marie Eileen Brown, 47, might normally have been jailed for all that...
Young Tairāwhiti dart players have been mixing it with professionals and one of the sport’s most exciting prospects at the Mediterranean Open in Gibraltar. The group and their co-managers are representing New Zealand overseas at tournaments...
They haven't taken over Super Rugby Aupiki completely . . . yet. But there is no question that there will be a strong Gisborne Ngāti Porou influence in the competition's third year. The competition has been extended from five rounds to seven, from...
Draw for Tairāwhiti senior and junior softball, all games at Waikirikiri Park on Saturday — Senior division, 12.30pm: D2, Moana Toa v Expendables; D3, Maori Smurfs v More or Less. Emerging Sox Intermediate Softball (Years 7 and 8), 11am: D1...
Gisborne grandparents Dennis and Cynthia Malone are closely following the fortunes of the New Zealand team at the ISA World Junior Surfing Championship in Brazil. Their grandson Navryn Malone, son of 1998 national surfing champion Chris, has been...
The new Government wants to crack on with important work but it will find itself dealing with distractions if third-time deputy prime minister Winston Peters keeps grouching at the media and entertaining conspiracy theories. The sooner he jets off...
Clive Bibby It may seem somewhat ironic suggesting that we are are still in charge of our own destiny, given the challenges that have emerged during this last year — Cyclones Hale and Gabrielle with their unprecedented damaging effect on the...
Re: No reason to fiddle with major city road, November 28 column. Roger, my word, you seem to have a bee in your bonnet around change. If you haven’t noticed (but you more than likely have, apparently) our city is in dire need of some aroha. This...
I note with interest that the speed restriction signs, that were never legally compliant, have been removed on Wharekopae Road. Should we assume that the huge potholes that remain on the road are no longer dangerous enough to warrant restrictions...
I want to thank the general public of Gisborne for supporting our peaceful gatherings to show solidarity with the marginalised people of Palestine. As we stand in absolute grief and distress for the loss of 14,000 Palestinian lives, over 6000 of...
Te Hapara School students have been exploring the wonder of energy this term as part of Engineering New Zealand’s Wonder Project. The free nationwide programme for schools is designed to get young Kiwis excited about science, technology...
Official figures for the week up to midnight, Sunday, show 69 Tairāwhiti residents have Covid-19. The country recorded 41 deaths from Covid in that week, but none from this district as the “fifth wave” of Covid-19 continues to strike New...
A control plan for asbestos at the Olympic Pool complex is under review ahead of demolition works beginning next year. Both the 50 metre lap pool and administration building are set to be levelled at the complex following the September opening of...
Residents in the inner city area around Aberdeen Road and Cobden Street who experienced discoloured water coming out of their taps last Tuesday have had an explanation from the council. The issue was contained to that area. Council water manager Leo...
A Hawke’s Bay police sergeant has received national honours for his efforts in rescuing a man at risk of drowning in the Wairoa River on New Year’s Eve two years ago. Sergeant Willie Tran was presented with a Royal Humane Society Bravery Award...
A man accused of burgling Gisborne’s Zambrero Restaurant twice in one night and twice burgling a beauty business a few days earlier, is on bail again. After being arrested for the alleged offences in October, Aidan Wesches, 40, was initially...