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...
Tawa Hills Angus at Motu enjoyed a total clearance in their rising two-year-old bull sale at the Matawhero saleyards yesterday morning to keep the high clearance rate going among the Tairāwhiti studs. Blair and Paige Crawshaw sold nine out off 11...
Walker becomes patron as charitable trust takes over governance of Tauawhi Men’s Centre this week. Ralph Walker, aka Papa Rau, has been honoured as the patron of Tauawhi Men’s Centre at an event this week to mark the transition of the centre to...
A long-haul truck driver caught drink-driving has been sentenced to community work. Judge Warren Cathcart imposed 250 hours work on Nigel Ross Williamson, 41, when he appeared in Gisborne District Court this week. The judge also imposed a mandatory...
The cyclone-damaged Hikuwai No. 1 bridge on State Highway 35 will be completely dismantled and transported away later this month. A Bailey bridge was opened earlier this month replacing the Hikuwai No. 1 bridge north of Tolaga Bay which was destroyed...
Gisborne’s main internet link was restored quickly in the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle but ongoing monitoring will be needed for two more years, before a permanent solution, to put the the fibre optic cable underground, can be implemented. “The...
A Wairoa woman has been arrested and charged with supplying methamphetamine, following the execution of a number of search warrants as part of the ongoing Operation Kotare targeting organised crime. Eastern District Police executed four search...
Wairoa and Nuhaka firefighters were called out in the early hours of yesterday morning to a major house fire in Wairoa. They found the home fully ablaze. The 111 calls started to come in just before 1am on Tuesday morning. “Three fire appliances...
Gisborne District Council has 137 homes on its list for silt removal, according to latest figures, as its spend on silt removal climbs to more than $2 million. The figures relate to a total spend in the region following Cyclone Gabrielle, and...
A landowner out flying a drone one morning spotted a group of strangers on his property without permission. When they started taunting the drone, the man called police. Raana Walter Morice was subsequently charged with unlawful hunting and unlawful...
Billboards are popping up around the Tairāwhiti region to remind people about methamphetamine abuse in the community. This is a local initiative organised by Tuta Ngarimu the regional manager for NZ P Pull Movement and manager of Manaaki Moves...
Police intervention needed as level of abuse intensifies across all departments.
Another mid-winter week has started on a bleak note with little to brighten the news scene. Television One’s Sunday programme kicked things off with a sombre message around the damage that has been done here by extreme weather and the massive...
June was a fun month for news outlets, RNZ’s self-inflicted scandal aside. Maryanne Spurdle, Maxim Institute researcher How often does a Cabinet Minister resign, and for entirely preventable reasons? Reactions to Michael Wood’s brazen resistance...
What on earth are the Gisborne Churches doing? Do you all agree with last Saturday’s Christian Comment? Shame on you! How did you allow this to be printed? Two of the Churches on the page stated “ALL WELCOME”. Bernard Moran doesn’t say which...
A huge thank you and aroha to the Palmerston Rd Immunisation Hub. We were really grateful for our injections in such a caring and friendly atmosphere. It wasn’t something we wanted but it was something we needed and you all did it painlessly and...
Great letter-exchange on the population problem over the weekend, thank you. Roger Handford told how improved education and family health reduces population growth; Lara Meyer added the factor of contraception. This general effect is known as the...
Please wake up and fix the railway line. There are too many holes in the road, and a big election on October 14th. I am a great, great fan of trains and used to travel on the train a lot. I want to see the trains come back to Gisborne for...