Mourners at Colin Worsnop’s funeral on Saturday witnessed a special moment when the grape harvesting company he worked for for 43 years fulfilled a family wish. Bay Grape Harvesters Ltd owners and father and son Reid and Andrew Fletcher used their...
American surfer Fredric Hodgson, known to many in the surfing fraternity in Gisborne as Rick Hodgson, passed away earlier this year in Malibu, California at the age of 73. He spent many summers of his life at Wainui Beach. An obituary in the Malibu...
The Te Ahu Kauawhi taskforce working to collect Census forms in the Tairāwhiti community ended their house to house visits yesterday. But a Census spokesperson said there will still be opportunities for people to complete it. “There will continue...
Another Secondhand Sunday rolls around this weekend and the Gisborne District Council has urged the community to register for it so fossickers can find the right places. People with household items to give away, should register their address on the...
Monday night’s rain proved the region’s roads are vulnerable to further rain on top of what the year has already delivered. The weather system put on a show of thunder and lightning on the hills inland of Tolaga Bay and the rain saw the Hikuwai...
The former Woodrose Furnishings shop has been demolished to make way for a new Kāinga Ora housing development. The building was demolished last week. “Kāinga Ora is partnering with ICONIQ Group and has an agreement with them to purchase 10 new...
Gisborne chardonnay was the star at the weekend, whether sipped on a steam train, in a vineyard or at the Black House luxury lodge, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Marking International Chardonnay Weekend, The Chardonnay Affair was made up of four...
Firefighters were called to a house in Devery Street in Mangapapa on Monday after a fire started in a car parked in a carport, started when hot tea towels fresh from a dryer caught fire inside the car. Fire and Emergency NZ sent crews to the...
A Herculean 30 tonne slow speed shredder is perhaps the one-stop solution that Gisborne needs, when it comes to dealing with issues such as slash. The $900,000 Terex 820 machine was donated to Gisborne company Harrison Bulk Haulage, by an Auckland...
State Highway 2 between Wairoa and Napier will be open around the clock from today, said Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency. That stretch of highway suffered the most destruction as a result of Cyclone Gabrielle, with damage to around 100 sites...
National arboretum laying down a blueprint for the next 100 years.
Gisborne nurses will hold stop work meetings on Thursday to discuss a Te Whatu Ora pay offer which their union says falls short of the rate of inflation. Nurses who are members of New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) will meet at one of 57...
THE Oligoi Jug trophy remains in Electrinet Park hands after a one-way matchplay final of the men’s interclub pennants competition on Sunday. Park (1) whitewashed Poverty Bay 8-0 in the 36-hole decider on the Poverty Bay course. The team of Anaru...
Monday, May 22 — President’s Pairs 4 North/South East/West Ann McCombe, Eileen Lee 60.42 Vicki Nickerson, Frank Roach 60.71 Patricia Corson, Bette Parker 53.87 Helen Kerisome, Pippa Williams 58.63 Gretchen Ivess, Louise Goodhue 51.79 Pamel...
A penalty in the 90th minute denied Gisborne Thistle a share of the points in their Central Federation League football match against Taradale in Hawke’s Bay on Saturday. Striker Jimmy Somerton scored a hat-trick for ALH Gisborne Thistle, who lost...
These Sky Blues have a solid look about them. The Ngati Porou East Coast Kaupoi wider squad — chock-full of quality and experience — will have as head coach, for the fourth year in a row, Lochore Cup-winning former All Black Hosea Gear. The...
It is building and the “W” is coming. Kevin Hollis Glass Pirates remain in sixth and bottom position on the Civil Project Solutions Premier club rugby table, but not before giving fourth-placed Larsawn Ngatapa a fright on Saturday. Ngatapa, kept...
by Sherrill Beale Premier grade newcomers Ngatapa and YMP (2) produced better performances but still succumbed to the superior skills and experience of more highly ranked opponents in senior netball in the YMCA on Saturday. Claydens Waikohu (1)...
It was his big brother’s big game but Genesis Tamatea-Bartlett almost stole the show as Poverty Bay Premier club competition leaders YMP rolled on at Te Karaka on Saturday. Tamatea-Bartlett scored a hat-trick of tries in East Coast Farm Vets...
Awhina Kaihe, Ngāti Porou, Ruatoria, is living her best life as a kaiāwhina with Turanga Health. The former teacher aide and mother of one joined the iwi health organisation in September 2022 and says working in primary health services for whānau...
The annual grain maize harvest still has about six weeks to run. Corson Grain’s procurement manager Richard Hyland said they have been making good progress. “We’d be about 60 percent through and harvesting will continue through into late...
The charity formerly known as Stroke Tairāwhiti has amalgamated with the Stroke Foundation New Zealand. The partnership will provide additional resources, expertise, health promotion and marketing capacity, and the ability to lobby government as...
Matawai dog triallist Samantha Shaw finished third and fourth in the zig zag hunt final at the New Zealand championships at the Warepa Collie Club grounds near Balclutha on Friday. She and Rogue had finished in third place in the South Island...
The district is having a warm start to winter, with a mild May producing above-normal temperatures for the time of year. Daytime highs over the month have been running at almost 1.3 degrees warmer than the 17.7 degree average for the 30 years...
Clive Bibby So much has happened since Cyclones Gabrielle and Hale delivered what might be the killer blow to the hopes and dreams of some decent, law-abiding contributors to this region’s and the nation’s economy. It is as if the world stood...
Lawson Field Theatre was the centre of a musical extravanganza as Tairāwhiti’s young musicians performed in this year’s Smokefreerockquest and Smokefree Tangata Beats regional heats on Friday. The exhilarating performance by Boys’ High...
There are “huge concerns” that the forestry contracting industry is 12 months from collapse, after two long-standing East Coast businesses go into liquidation.
With the Government’s 2023 Budget behind them and the election just over four months away, the two largest parties seem to be settling down to a war of slogans. National will continue with its catchy “coalition of chaos” jibe that warns of...
Dr Melissa Derby The Second Academic Freedom Report released by the Free Speech Union is a chilling read for those of us who work in universities. It uses a phrase we hear often — that universities are the “critics and conscience of society”...
The rivers of Gisborne are being polluted with garbage and silt by us humans. Two years ago I was part of a clean-up of the Taruheru River and what we found was really disgusting — things like broken computers, old shoes and even a destroyed...
A healthy society is one where society in general sits squarely cradled within public healthcare and civil amenities. If we do not have that premise, we do not have a healthy social environment per se. Local headlines point to our hospital being...
The finalists for Surf Life Saving New Zealand’s (SLSNZ) Gisborne-Tairāwhiti Awards of Excellence have been announced. The awards recognise and celebrate the hard work, skills, and dedication that go into surf lifeguarding, education...
The second of two rocket launches to deploy a constellation of storm- monitoring satellites for NASA launched from Mahia on Saturday. The mission, named Coming To A Storm Near You, was originally scheduled to launch last Monday but was delayed —...
The success of the Tairāwhiti Driver Licensing Trial was celebrated last week. The trial involves a partnership between Tairawhiti REAP (Rural Activities Education Programme) McInnes Driving School and Waka Kotahi. It is an initiative being run by...