SUPPORT for the TP Strong 4 Andy fundraising golf tournament continues to pour in. As of this week the field was full for the July 16 event which is raising money for the whānau of Poverty Bay-East Coast representative golfer and Te Puia Springs...
Daffodil Day is coming up fast but the once sunny Gisborne may not have enough daffodils because of the continuous “weather events”. It is an unprecedented situation for Gisborne-East Coast Cancer Society as they prepare for their biggest...
High School Old Boys remain undefeated but were tested by Gisborne United Seconds in Eastern League 2 football at Harry Barker Reserve on Saturday. Goals by left-winger Jack Adams in the 25th minute and striker William Garrett in the 60th gave HSOB...
POVERTY BAY A new name will appear on the Barns-Graham Cup after the 32 combinations were whittled down to eight at the weekend. The Gisborne Motors-sponsored men’s pairs event produced a multitude of nerve-testing matches off handicap over the...
The accolades for top equestrienne Merran Hain QSM continue. The Gisborne grandmother can already lay claim to winning every major national title in the sport and has now added the Equestrian Sports New Zealand Hall of Fame to her CV. Hain, John...
Campion College students have made history for their school by forming its first competitive kapa haka team. They took the stage at the secondary schools’ regional competition last month. The two best teams from each region qualify for the...
A woman has admitted smashing a glass bottle over another woman’s head during an unprovoked attack at a party. The incident happened at the end of a night in which about 15 people had been celebrating a 50th birthday at the Matakaoa RSA, Te...
Overseas Investment Office confirms sale of sheep, beef and deer farm on Tiniroto Road European retail giant IKEA has bought up more farmland here to transfer into forestry, the Overseas Investment Office has confirmed. The latest approval involves...
Gisborne District Council has closed the Tiniroto Road at ‘The Bluffs’ to all vehicles due to a tension crack that geo tech engineers have found in the bluff face. “It could come down onto the road without warning,” the council warns...
The police Operation Kōtare team have made further arrests in Wairoa as part of their ongoing methamphetamine inquiry and have seized “significant” amounts of methamphetamine, cannabis, weapons, and cash. Search warrants were executed on...
The Sunrise Foundation’s annual funding round is open for grant applications from any charity or community organisation with a charitable purpose in the region. Applications must be received by Sunrise before 4pm, July 18, and will be assessed by...
The Gisborne component of East Coast Angus Bull Week ended on an absolute high on Tuesday afternoon when the Turihaua stud produced a record-equalling top price that headlined another excellent sale. Turihaua Angus got one of their...
A group of waka ama paddlers got into difficulties at The Cut yesterday morning when their craft were capsized by swells as they attempted to get back into the Tūranganui River. Police, St John ambulance officers, the rescue helicopter and the surf...
Sharing korero about the Māori new year Matariki, or the 28 Maori battalion kaupapa are the focus of an early morning parakuihi (breakfast) Matariki event tomorrow. At the C Company Memorial House, starting at 6.45am, there will be a breakfast...
The largest pōhutukawa tree in Aotearoa, Te Waha o Rerekohu, has been infected with myrtle rust, but a hapū-led project is working to monitor and figure out ways to heal and protect the native plants. Te Waha o Rerekohu (the mouth of Rerekohu) in...
Chief financial officer says houses are being looked at on a case-by-case basis Rates are being remitted on red-stickered houses, Gisborne District Council chief executive Nedine Thatcher Swann has confirmed. She was speaking yesterday at a full...
Waikohu (1) goal defence Humaria Higgins is pictured above getting both hands on the ball ahead of Whangara Old Girls (1) goal attack Hinewaipounamu Rangihuna in a Premier Grade netball game in the YMCA. Round 3 action continues tonight with two...
SPORT IN BRIEF Gisborne ended as they began the North Island Junior Netball Championships in New Plymouth — beating Mangere-Otahuhu 28-20 in the Under-16 B Grade playoff for 11th yesterday. Gisborne defeated Mangere Otahuhu 32-11 in their opening...
Football Eastern League 1 — SATURDAY, 12.30pm: Harry Barker Reserve 1, Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne Thistle United 1sts v Gisborne Thistle Youth; Childers Road Reserve 1, Property Brokers Thistle 1sts v 1st Class Decorators Wainui Salty Dogs...
The Poverty Bay women’s club rugby competition finally kicked off on Sunday with three teams facing off at Barry Park. YMP hosted Waikohu and Tapuae in a format of three 35-minute halves. YMP and Tapuae met in the first 35 minutes, with the former...
Gisborne lifeguard Christy Tate has been called into the Black Fins for the International Surf Rescue Championship (ISRC) in September. She joins five other Gisborne athletes in the national team. Tate, from the Kaiaponi Farms Waikanae club will...
GIsborne couple Glen and Roselle Climo’s thoughts are in France as they eagerly await the birth of the first foal from their champion mare Verry Elleegant — winner of the Caulfield and Melbourne cups. The couple have been associated with the...
Former players from as far afield as Japan and the Gold Coast will be attending YMP Hockey Club’s official centenary dinner in Gisborne on July 15. Long-time club member and co-organiser Lynne Holmberg yesterday said 140 people were confirmed for...
Planning for a regional indoor recreation centre is one of the next focus areas for partners in the Tairāwhiti Sport and Recreation Facilities Programme, while the location of proposed waka ama facilities is being reconsidered in the wake of...
by Clive Bibby I rarely feel the need to publicly express my concerns about a politician who is in trouble — one senior journalist even came out on Sunday saying that Kiri Allan’s future as a Cabinet minister is hanging by a thread. Serious...
I tautoko Greg Mead’s letter to the editor on the council’s decision to choose an offshore company as the Learn to Swim provider at Kiwa Pools, over Comet Swimming Club. (June 27, What would they know?) Stop this madness. In my eyes, Comet is...
In July 1963, when the Kaimai air disaster occurred, I was in my first year at Hamilton Boys’ High School. My mother worked in Waikato Hospital’s laboratory. We didn’t yet have a black and white television and heard the news of the missing DC3...
In a further reply to Bernard Moran’s “Christian Comment” on Saturday, July 1st, Hebrew belongs to a group of languages that have grammatical gender. In Hebrew virtually every noun (as well as most verbs and pronouns of the second and third...
Clearance rates have been very high in the Angus bull sales here. Orere Angus sold 19 out of the 20 bulls they put up by auction in their first on-farm sale on Monday. Studmaster Ben Johnson steered them around the ring. Tangihau Angus set the price...
It's time for tamariki of Tairāwhiti to get ready to celebrate themselves at the region’s Children’s Day event on Sunday. Children’s Day was in March but because of Cyclone Gabrielle the Tairāwhiti event was postponed. “This event belongs...
New figures show the number of missions flown out of the Eastland Helicopter Rescue Trust hangar increased more than seven-fold in the days after Cyclone Gabrielle and the local crew says it was a massive team effort. But even that increase in...
Kaharau Angus off Riverside Road celebrated 50 years of bull sales on Monday night in style with a packed rostrum on-farm in Goodwin Road and a “brilliant” commercial sale. The iconic local stud sold all but two of the 62 rising two-year-old...
Whangara Angus kept the East Coast Angus Bull Week clearance wheels rolling yesterday afternoon when 29 out of 30 of their young bulls went off to new homes. In yet another highly successful commercial rising two-year-old bull sale, Whangar...
Iwi chairs of Ngāti Porou and Te Aitanga a Māhaki are disappointed by the update, released last week, on progress implementing recommendations from the Land Use in Tairāwhiti Inquiry report Outrage to Optimism. “We are witnessing ecosystem...