This week is Asbestos Awareness Week (November 20–26). As New Zealand’s number one workplace killer, asbestos is responsible for approximately 220 deaths each year due to related diseases. Now is a great opportunity to educate and remind tradies...
by Ann Revington, Wairoa Star The latest exhibition at Wairoa Museum is a photographic journey of sites of significance around Tūranganui-ā-Kiwa/Gisborne. Mike Spedding — a former director of the Wairoa and Tairāwhiti museums and now an art...
by Doug Laing, Hawke’s Bay Today The Wairoa A&P Society is taking its January show to town after deciding it cannot hold the annual event at its showgrounds because of damage caused by Cyclone Gabrielle and other climatic events of 2023. The...
The full impact of Cyclone Gabrielle on the whitebait fishery may not be seen until next year. Department of Conservation (DoC) Wairoa ranger David Mathias said the flooding was significant and quite severe on their habitat. While some whitebait...
Since retiring in 2015, artist Norman Maclean has been able to devote a lot more time to his art. The result is a large body of work made up of recent paintings and prints as well as others that date back to 20 years ago. They will all be part of...
Faces of the Coast, an art exhibition made up of donated art works, opens at Forty10 Cafe on Lowe Street on Friday. All money raised is going to two groups — The Mahia Wave Warriors and The Mahi Mahi Bowlriders — doing positive things in the...
Now is your chance to see Jon Toogood live in an intimate setting at Smash Palace tomorrow night. Jon is the lead singer and founding member of legendary NZ rock band Shihad who, now hold the record for most #1 albums by any artist in NZ chart...
Lawson Field Theatre was abuzz with excitement last Friday as the Gisborne Volunteer Centre hosted its third biennial Two Minutes of Good Stuff film festival. The evening was to have originally taken place in June to coincide with National Volunteer...
New local play Beachfront Reality will have its world premiere next year and Evolution Theatre are calling for auditions. It is a family drama set at an East Coast bach during Christmas. Cast Requirements Cliff Ripley: Patriarch of the family, a man...
A staged reading of the work of two playwrights took place at Evolution Theatre last Saturday as part of East Coast Scribes — a programme that aims to grow local stories. One work by local playwright Susan Partington was part of the 2021 East...
This Week Build-a-band Every Thursday night at Smash Palace, from 7-11pm. Motivate your muso mates or just turn up — everything’s set up and ready to go. Let’s jam! Free entry. Fusion Bellydance Every Thursday at 5.45pm. Join vibrant and fun...
The traditional summer kickoff at Smash Palace is back with Summer Soundcheck this Saturday. The event features Sweet Mix Kids (SMK), BrazilBeat Sound System, Peta Norris, Geeez and DJose. Auckland based DJ/Production duo Sweet Mix Kids (Sandon...
For such a famed historical figure, Napoleon has made only fleeting appearances in movies since Abel Gance’s 1927 silent film. Stanley Kubrick had grand designs for a Napoleon epic that went unmade. (Steven Spielberg is attempting to revive those...
Less than 24 hours after she was found guilty of murdering her father,The Gisborne Herald understands Lynne Martin has died in police custody. In a statement police said they had begun an enquiry on behalf of the Coroner following the death of...
Odeon Multiplex Napoleon Director Ridley Scott focuses on the swift rise to power of Napoleon Bonaparte, as well as his relationship with Empress Josephine. Stars Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby. Freelance A former special forces operative...
A teenager with the name of one of the great Māori leaders has followed in the footsteps of the greatest East Coast golfer. Apirana Ngarimu, a short drive from where Sir Apirana Ngata was born (Te Araroa) and died (Ruatoria), won the 72nd edition...
The 2023/24 Nutri-Grain Ironman and Ironwoman series begins at Manly Beach in Sydney in about three weeks and two Gisborne surf athletes will once again be in the fields. Dawson Building Midway’s Cory Taylor and Olivia Corrin, who also compete for...
Te Puia Hot Springs A week is a long time in golf. Stu Harbottle was sent packing from the Poverty Bay men’s shootout after a triple-bogey eight and a chip-off on the very first hole on Sunday, November 12. A week later he was crowned the Tokomaru...
Gisborne Club Darts Association junior and youth players to represent New Zealand at the Junior Darts Corporation world championships in Gibraltar also include Jadine Black. Her name was missing from those listed in a story in yesterday's Herald...
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...
With the Chief Ombudsman last month laying out his expectation that council workshops be more open and transparent, The Herald followed up a response to that from Gisborne District Council by requesting minutes of the 18 workshops it has held this...
A round of applause to the urban planners. Gisborne is on the cusp of a bright future thanks to the power of the pen. That is if the draft Future Development Strategy is adopted in something like its current state. Jack Marshall Our city is expected...
So where is El Nino? Judging from the behaviour of the region’s weather, it’s more like El Nono, and contrary to all the dire forecasts that began months ago. Examining data of the past few months, and the current weather, there is still no...
Congratulations to Kerry Hudson on the recognition of his outstanding contribution to land management in our region. Kerry has worked alongside all landowners in Tairāwhiti over many, many years, through all sorts of government and local...
The award to Kerry Hudson has truly been earned through his dedication to land management. I recall the hours he gave to the work of my late husband Malcolm Piper with QE11 National Trust — with conservation in the right places — as being...
I see some councils are concerned that 3 Waters will be repealed. They’re worried that the idea of clean water will disappear if we ever get a National-led coalition of chaos. Prejudice will win out over practicality because Māori have sat at the...
The Weddel closure in late 1994 meant the end of a 98 year era for the Gisborne Refrigerating Company (GRC). For the 1200-strong workforce it meant the sudden and dramatic end of their working lives at the plant. It came as a crushing blow for many...
Gisborne Intermediate School students Neko Dalton and Max Gavin were crowned Māra Kai MasterChef champions after an inter-school cook-off last week. The Enviroschools Māra Kai MasterChef final runs every year at Gisborne Intermediate after...
A Gisborne man who repeatedly poached crayfish from a marine reserve has been sentenced to two months jail for what a judge described as deliberate night-time offending. Duke Matahiki was first observed and then apprehended by police at Tapuwae o...
A woman suffered serious injuries when the SUV she was in left State Highway 35 yesterday morning, hitting a large willow tree before coming to rest against a fence down a bank. Emergency services were called to the crash at around 9.30am, and...
More rain is on the way for the region, as another system sweeps in from the north, off the Tasman Sea. While the rain has not been torrential so far, total accumulation means much of the district is once again saturated. MetService warns a low...
A collection of surreptitiously taken photographs showing life as a POW (prisoner of war), backed by diaries never discovered by German captors, will fascinate any World War 2 buff or descendant of a veteran. Prominent Gisborne farmer Nick Seymour...
Project fitted Waka Kotahi goals to increase number of people using active and low carbon modes of transport . . . Gisborne District Council has already agreed to part-fund a proposal to introduce speed chicanes on Grey Street and make Kahuti...
Daughter deliberately started fire which burned her father alive, jury finds.