The Tūranga Bal, Folk Dance New Zealand’s annual event was a great success at the weekend with 46 people taking part including six musicians and six tutors from around the country. Balfolk dance workshops were taken on Saturday with Michael...
Eastland Port had 10 log ships come calling for cargo last month and they took away 228,000 tonnes of export logs. There were no coastal or reefer ships alongside the wharf last month. “Daily intake of logs into the port averaged around 9500...
Tighter standards to combat forestry slash by targeting new plantings are poised to get a final sign-off. Slash damage from Cyclone Gabrielle in Tairāwhiti forced lawmakers to revisit the mild amendments they had planned. The stronger changes to...
Armed police went to Munro Street in Elgin on Saturday morning in response to reports of a burglary that was reported to have involved a firearm. The response to Munro Street happened shortly before 9am on that morning. “Police who attended were...
A former SPCA inspector has painted a grim picture of Gisborne District Council’s animal control arm in the wake of it putting a dog down in error last month. On September 22, the council euthanised family pet Sarge by mistake on the same day...
Gisborne girl Charlotte Moore and her dad Justin were among the crowd in Hamilton on Saturday afternoon when the Black Ferns beat Australia, and it turned out to be a very special occasion. The nine-year-old rugby and sport-mad youngster, who...
As the penultimate week of the election campaign gets under way, to use a sporting analogy Labour is starting with its captain on the sidelines and the big question confronting National is what final team it might put out on the field. Just as he...
Re: GDC regulatory system remains broken, September 30 column. John, as a parent associated with the Tairāwhiti surfing team, I reached out to GDC on the proposed wastewater discharge at Midway Beach in relation to the New Zealand Scholastic...
The National Party policy of allowing NZ homes worth more than $2 million to be sold to overseas buyers, to try to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy, will destroy small beach towns like Ohope, Gisborne, Waihi, Papamoa and Whangamata. Economists from...
Congratulations Tairāwhiti Alzheimers on your 50th birthday. Those before you and those now have given so much to many of our most vulnerable people in our society. It is frightening to see the growth in this very sad disease and to know it is not...
The reason Healthcare New Zealand took over the support worker contract from CCS, who had ably run it for 30 years in Tairāwhiti, was because they would be “cutting costs”. HCNZ’s latest cost-cutting onslaught has been to shorten support...
Extremely bad luck for any politician to “go down” with Covid so close to an election, and more so for a prime minister wishing to lead the government again after that election. In my humble opinion, while it would not have completely solved our...
A waka suspended in the air? Incongruous and unrelated to its form or function. Why not build the bridge to look like a kite? What a shame to have lost the observatory. Wayne Rickard
Bay of Plenty steamrolled their opponents at the National Scholastic Surfing Championships in Gisborne last week, claiming their first victory in six years. They secured two titles on the final day, Friday, with 10 of the 12 team members featuring...
MONDAY, September 25 – Sean Shivnan Pharmacy Championship Pairs 8 (Howell movement) Pamela Clay, Mark Fleming 62.92 Vicki Nickerson, Frank Roach 62.38 Helen Kerisome, Pippa Williams 57.14 Anne Roberts, Raewynne Cook 57.14 Diana Styche, Joy Marden...
Hawke’s Bay Today’s candidate evening for Ikaroa-Rāwhiti was held at Karamū High School in Hastings. Editor Chris Hyde has the run down . . . Why candidates want to be MP Meka Whaitiri: Kia ora whānau, thank you for coming out tonight. I love...
Tairāwhiti GP Fergus Bruce Aitcheson says general practice is in the worse state he has ever seen. The Three Rivers managing partner and specialist GP recently appeared on Newshub as one of several medical specialists who said his sector was in...
Restoring the life of kākahu (Māori garments) cared for by Tairāwhiti Museum is a part of the new exhibition opening on Sunday. Tairāwhiti Museum kaitieiki Māori have organised an exhibition called He Kākahu Rerehua The Uplifting Wind, that...
After weeks of dry, September returned to the year’s unfavourite flavour of weather -—wet, wet, wet. The month ends with a rainfall total of more than twice the September normal figure. The total stood at almost 180 millimetres yesterday...
The skateboarding national championships at Alfred Cox Skate Park were forced to change their final events to yesterday due to a forecast of “100 percent chance” of rain for today. The last-minute adjustment added to the excitement for the...
Swift work by local residents stopped a potentially devastating fire in its tracks at Parihimanihi Marae at Waihirere on Thursday night. Firefighters said there was only a minute in it. The fire is being treated as a probable arson. Fire and...
Mistrust over what Gisborne District Council would do with proceeds from potential commercial asset sales and disbelief at its challenged commercial arm’s “short-term” view of Tauwhareparae Farms were two main takeaways from a public meeting...
The $500,000 Lotto prize struck by a Gisborne ticket in last weekend’s draw was claimed at the Ballance Street Bookshop on Wednesday, much to the delight of the winners and shop staff. The Gisborne ticket, sold at the bookshop, shared the First...
The Gisborne owners of the dog mistakenly put down and Gisborne District Council say they have resolved the matter, issuing a joint statement yesterday afternoon. “Sarge’s owners and Gisborne District Council have settled the matter between...
Urgent repairs to a wastewater outfall pipe at Midway Beach are being treated as emergency works following bad weather in the region. But one concerned resident with a background in environmental advocacy believes the issue could have been avoided...
Labour’s Tāmati Coffey and the Green Party’s Jordan Walker are friendly East Coast political adversaries and hold similar views on the health sector. The possibility of more vigorous debate and disagreement at a health-themed election meeting...
The challenges of the past year that led to Gisborne Holdings Ltd’s board deciding they could not pay GHL’s council owner $2.5 million of anticipated income also seem to have helped unify their thinking. The directors didn’t appear to be...
John Kape Council had planned to discharge treated sewage on to Midway beach during the school holidays. This would have forced probable cancellation of a National Junior Surf competition planned for the pipe surfbreak. There are a number of...
It used to be that newspaper presses were built like battleships and lasted forever. They were reminders of an age gone by when they were huge mechanical monsters, served by ink- and oil-smeared men in overalls. I know all things change, as is the...
SQUASH Surf City Squash Club achieved one championship, two runners-up spots and two top-four placings in the national superchamps week held around the country. The women’s F Grade team won their tournament in New Plymouth, beating Geyser City...
Gisborne Thistle had the second-best scoring record in Central Football’s Federation League, and the worst defensive record. Their goals for couldn’t keep pace with their goals against and so they finished second-last in a five-team competition...
Andrew Rickard, son Adam and daughter Rachael have won the Poverty Bay-East Coast Indoor Bowls Centre Closing Trios in a one-sided final. They beat Malcolm Trowell, Lois Lamont and Mike Foster 11-5. After four ends of nine, the Rickards were in...
The advantages of an artificial green were evident again when play in the McKenzie Shield Open Mixed Triples was able to go ahead at Poverty Bay Bowling Club on a sunny day after heavy overnight rain. Three games of 90 minutes were played in the...
Tuesday night league INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS 180s: A Taukamo-Pohio 2 (2NZEF TAO Vikings); K Arahanga 2 (RSA Stallions); I Eyles (RSA Gunz); J Ahuriri, T Ratapu (2NZEF TAO Spartans); H Woollett (Brezz’n Gold); R Leach (RSA Outlaws); M Evans (RS...