Three tries at standing for council and I haven’t come very far. I did, however, get in the final word at the question time part of the Trust Tairawhiti AGM at the Waikanae surf club last night. Hallelujah LOL. I followed on from an earlier...
Re: National ready to get to work — Luxon, August 8 story. The National Party campaign “Back on Track” is on the “wrong track”! They have “tunnel vision” with their transport policy focusing only on investment in roads. Instead, their...
The Trust Tairāwhiti annual meeting on Thursday night was focused even more than usual on issues related to Eastland Group Ltd (EGL), the trust’s dominant asset which it owns on behalf of all of us in Tairāwhiti. It raises again the question of...
Poverty Bay finished the Hurricanes Heartland Under-20 series winless but provided one of the individual highlights. Prop Hayze Nepia was named player of the series which finished with a doubleheader weekend in Bulls. Nepia and Poverty Bay teammates...
Talented Poverty Bay East Coast bowler Matthew Foster flew the district flag high as a member of the North Island team in their annual clash with the South Island in Ashburton. Foster, 19, played lead in the men’s fours team alongside Ali Wilson...
Week 2 of the men’s premier basketball league was mind-boggling stuff. A raft of the Gisborne Basketball Association’s best three-point shooters drew a bead and hit the target on a Tuesday night to remember. Weighn Wilson hit four of Green...
It’s not about winning or losing. It’s about learning and experiencing something different. That was the ethos of the Trish Hina Rugby League 9s Primary Interschool tournament held at Waikirikiri Park this week. Youngsters got a taste of a sport...
The best of the store lambs sold at recent values at yesterday’s Matawhero sheep sale. However, there was a dramatic fall in demand for the later-born store lambs. Prices for them crashed and several pens failed to attract a buyer. A total of 907...
Sudden-death semifinals in the Poverty Bay club hockey competition offer some juicy prospects this weekend and it all starts tonight with GMC Kowhai playing Te Aowera on the turf at Harry Barker Reserve. The winners of that game go through to the...
Space company Rocket Lab looks set to continue operating from its Māhia space port for probably the remainder of the decade at least, after announcing a new five-launch deal. This week the United States-based company announced it had signed another...
Bear with me. When my dad was coaching Gisborne City 55 years ago (it was the first year of the name change from Eastern Union), players would come to him with the work-versus-football dilemma. Every time he would say: “Work comes first. This is...
I am the river The river is me I am dying Understand: I am the whole Understand: I have no parts Understand: The order of relations The Interconnected Whole I am the river The river is me Heed the bells of warning Stand up Draw the lines And uphold...
Bob Hughes I write this on Sunday, August 6 — Hiroshima Peace Day — the anniversary of the horrific nuclear attack on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945. This and the atomic bombing of Nagasaki three days later are the only uses of nuclear...
Figures released this week by Gun Control NZ show that a large and broad-based majority of New Zealanders, 71 percent in total, support the establishment of a gun registry. Introduced in June this year, the registry has been strongly criticised by...
Pultron Composites reaped the rewards of hard work at last night’s Hawke’s Bay ASB Exporter of the Year, walking away with several awards including the top gong. The Gisborne company was named ExportNZ Hawke’s Bay ASB Exporter of the Year and...
“I can’t believe you get 45,000 visitors a year. That’s nearly a thousand a week.” Those comments from Gisborne district councillor Teddy Thompson were among many similarly positive comments from councillors as Tairāwhiti Museum director...
From the opening scene of Michael James Manaia, it is clear the audience is in for a wild ride. Time to strap ourselves in. The one-man play opens tonight at Unity Theatre, with Lawrence Mulligan in the title role. Here he is, recounting his trip to...
Being part of the mahi (work) in the natural environment (taiao) shows young tauira (students) the job possibilities they could be involved in. Te Ngahuru Tikotikoiere team from Rongowhakaata Iwi Trust took a class from Te Kura o Manutuke to one of...
Turanga Health kaimahi (staff) will host another vaccination drive-through service at Te Wai-o-Hiharore (the railway station) on Sunday. Vaccinations will be provided to the public in the comfort of their own waka amid a friendly atmosphere with...
Gisborne residents are invited to a free sausage sizzle and information event on Sunday, to prepare for Conservation Week, which runs from Monday August 14 to Sunday August 20. Conservation groups from across the region will set up a “tent city”...
A home alongside State Highway 35 north of Te Araroa was destroyed in a blaze in the early hours of Wednesday morning. The cause remains under investigation. Fire and Emergency New Zealand received the first 111 call about the fire in the unoccupied...
Rural Women New Zealand (RWNZ) national board chair Sandra Matthews gathered a team of volunteers in Tairāwhiti last weekend to pack 287 support bags for distribution to farming families. RWNZ members from all over the country have donated...
Clients using Gisborne’s Sunshine Service are greeted by some new faces on a Friday once a month, the result of an initiative to increase the service’s volunteer base. The faces belong to members of Eastland Port’s senior management team, who...
The call for an indoor sports centre in Turanganui-a-Kiwa/Gisborne is intensifying as several sports experiencing significant growth feel acutely the impact of a lack of facilities. Sport Gisborne Tairawhiti chief executive Stefan Pishief says the...
Saturday morning is expected to be frosty. And from 2.30pm an overcast sky and a nor’ westerly breeze will greet Enterprise Cars Ngati Porou East Coast and their Round 1 Heartland Championship opponents Wairarapa Bush. Dealing with the Reece...
YMP (1) are a win away from retaining the Premier Grade crown but only after squeezing past a committed Whangara Old Girls (1) in the 1 v 2 semifinal at the YMCA on Wednesday night. The defending champions won 48-45 in a semi that went down to the...
Gold Coast-based Gisborne lifeguard Cory Taylor will captain the New Zealand Black Fins team at the International Surf Rescue Challenge (ISRC) in Texas next month. Taylor has been in the team since 2009 and this will be his second time as captain...
Poverty Bay’s 2023 mission to climb back up the Heartland Championship ranks begins at home tomorrow against Buller. High School Old Boys is hosting the Round 1 game at the Oval, kicking off at 2.30pm. Civil Project Solutions Poverty Bay Wekas’...
The true rugged nature of ladies’ club basketball roared forth on Monday. Gisborne Girls’ High School won their clash with In Living Colour 48-40 in Game 3 of Week 2 — a celebration of speed, daring and stamina. Girls’ High’s first-year...
Out at Wainui, they like their football to be of the champagne variety — full of bubbles and life. Clubmates 1st Class Decorators Wainui Salty Dogs and Coates Associates Wainui Demons turned on a seven-goal spectacular at Wainui in Eastern League...
Mangapapa School’s Reef Mullooly tries his best to get through two Te Wharau School defenders during the Trish Hina Interschool Rugby League Tournament at Waikirikiri Park yesterday. The focus of the tournament was on participation and...
POVERTY BAY Richard Foon carded one of the men’s rounds of the year net-wise on Saturday but it bears a possibly concerning resemblance to his performance almost a year ago. Foon fired 77-13-64 off the blue tees to take an iron grip on Division 2...
The Sky Blues got back on the horse. Having lost a historic clash with Central Hawke’s Bay 18-17 at Otane Domain the previous weekend, Enterprise Cars Ngati Porou East Coast Kaupoi (Cowboys) made a gorgeous Saturday one to savour with 400 in...
A pink-themed top-of-the-table men’s football game has raised thousands of dollars for the Breast Cancer Foundation. The total was boosted by a flurry of donations after High School Old Boys player and co-coach Matthew McFatter put his hair on the...