The loss of his trusty 5-wood proved an ace blessing in disguise for long-time Te Puia Hot Springs member Peter Harrison on Sunday. Harrison sank his tee shot on the 148-metre par-3 ninth hole at the Springs — the third hole-in-one of his career...
POVERTY BAY He tempted fate last year. Not this time. Simon Jeune chose not to repeat his 2022 action of touching the giant Enterprise Motor Warehouse open foursomes trophy before teeing off on Saturday. Eighteen holes later he and Glenn Morley had...
Gisborne surfer Saffi Vette is one of three women in a six-strong New Zealand team to the ISA World Surfing Games at Surf City, El Salvador. The Games begin with the opening ceremony and the Pouring of the Sands on Tuesday next week. Vette became...
Gisborne Boardriders Club held its third and final Junior Series event in solid 1-to-1.5-metre Northern Makorori waves at the weekend. Rising star Asia Braithwaite was again in the spotlight, with victory in the girls’ under-18 division, while Max...
A jury deliberated for three hours yesterday before finding Mongrel Mob couple George Hallet Walker and Grace Mercedies guilty of murdering Gisborne woman Maraea Smith. Ms Smith, 36, was shot dead on Titoki Street about 9.55pm on March 25, last...
Gisborne Hospital Ward 5 nurses yesterday celebrated victory in court but remain adamantly committed to alleviating safety and staffing concerns. Nurses from as far away as Ruatoria joined a rally outside the hospital yesterday to support Ward 5...
Consent has been lodged for the Waikare Gorge realignment project to bypass six kilometres of the existing State Highway 2, including the slip- and rockfall-prone Waikare Gorge between Wairoa and Napier. The realignment project will include 3.9km of...
The Tairāwhiti Emergency Management Roadshow starts in Tokomaru Bay on Sunday with stop one of its five-weekend tour. The roadshow brings together emergency services in Tairāwhiti to train in partnership with community Civil Defence volunteers...
Alzheimers NZ’s Gisborne services face permanent closure due to government funding restrictions, it was revealed yesterday. “We’re clinging to the lifeboats,” Alzheimers Gisborne manager Tracy Robinson said. “We may have to close down...
The Labour Party Maori Caucus ministers were in Gisborne yesterday to spread the word on the Budget 2023 funding announcements for Maori. The total Māori package this year is just over $825 million. Funding announced included $23m for extending Te...
Kerrah Simmentals from Whakaki kept the bull sales season success going in the region on Tuesday when they achieved an almost total clearance in their on-farm auction. The Knauf family put up 73 rising two-year-old bulls and sold 72 of them at...
The cost of the Gisborne District Council election of 2022 has been determined at $217,000 plus GST for 35,000 electors, or $6 plus GST for each elector. The figures came from Gisborne electoral officer Dale Ofsoske in a report prepared for the...
Only 28 Māori in Tairāwhiti received a measles vaccination over a two year “massive” measles vaccination catch-up campaign. Health Minister Ayesha Verrall says the Ministry of Health had “good intentions” when it planned the campaign...
Close encounters highlighted Week 4 of Poverty Bay club hockey including a classic duel between last year’s men’s competition grand finalists. As predicted, defending champions YMP A and Lytton Old Boys Traktion produced the men’s game of the...
Ovation New Zealand Ltd is partnering with inMR Measure Ltd (inMR) to test the development of an intramuscular fat (IMF) lamb grading technology at its Gisborne plant in Dunstan Road. The concept has been developed with the support and co-funding...
The Motu Trails Charitable Trust will receive $90,000 from Trust Tairāwhiti over three years to boost their marketing and promotions to attract more visitors to the region. That was one of 11 applications approved in the trust’s latest funding...
The other new team in Premier Grade netball, Ngatapa, face a tough task tonight when they front up to in-form YMP in the YMCA. Turanga FM YMP racked up over 80 goals against newly promoted YMP (2) in the Pak’nSave competition at the weekend. YMP...
Netball Pak’nSave Gisborne Netball, SATURDAY, Premier/Prem Reserve games are 4 x 15-minute quarters. All other games are 4 x 10-minute quarters. Duty teams to put up the goal pads, set up team benches (courts 1 and 2) put out bins: NHEW Tein...
by Rockin’ Robin Luca Vita was first and his father Mike second in the feature race of Eastland Kart Club’s last meeting of its 10th season. Racing was to a high standard as drivers dealt with windy conditions on Sunday. It was their last...
Mixed results continued last week in the third night of BIZminton 2023, the business house badminton league. In the competitive grade, Cuzzys continued their winning form, defeating Mixed Combo four matches to two, while Unknowns remain at the top...
Monday, May 15 — President’s Pairs 3 North/South East/West Helen Kerisome, Pippa Williams 60.42 Vicki Nickerson, Frank Roach 61.31 Patricia Corson, Bette Parker 56.85 Graham Maclaurin, Gary Chalmers 52.98 Pamela Clay, Mark Fleming 49.70 Katrine...
A blood-and-guts performance earned Gisborne Boys’ High School second 15 victory over Napier Boys’ High in Gisborne on Saturday. Coach Mike Kora’s team opened their Super 8 campaign at home with a 13-7 win at the Rectory. Cody Tarei was the...
Thorn Parkes has played his first great knock in England. The former Poverty Bay cricket captain played a match-winning unbeaten knock of 105 off 104 balls on his 50-over debut for Three Bridges against Mayfield in the Sussex Premier League. The...
POVERTY BAY Poverty Bay Bowling Club members competed in a closing day rotational triples tournament as a farewell to their cyclone-damaged artificial turf. In rotational triples, players all have a turn in each position — skip, director and lead...
With the King’s Birthday Weekend local derby looming, Poverty Bay selectors believe they have a balanced and exciting squad to take on Ngāti Porou East Coast in Gisborne. A 44-man squad were named this week — 15 of them from the Premier club...
HortNZ has been heavily involved in providing the Government with numerous reports on Cyclone Gabrielle’s impact. The organisation started working with the Government immediately after the cyclone struck. “We strongly advocated for the...
Gold Creek Simmentals from Te Karaka kicked off the Gisborne stud bull sale season on Monday afternoon on a very positive note with an almost total clearance, a bull sold to stud and a healthy average. The on-farm auction drew a great crowd with the...
by Peter Jones It was comforting to see that all sides of the debate are genuinely concerned about the impact of recent storms on the viability of humans living throughout our district. Who could doubt that Hekia Parata did the best that she knew...
by Tony Harvie Forty years back as chairman of Te Karaka Federated Farmers, I made a public statement that TK was living on borrowed time and relocation was a growing threat. City engineers at the time labelled this alarmist but it has eventuated...
When I read the front-page article of Saturday’s Gisborne Herald, I could not believe my eyes regarding the huge amount of money allegedly being given to help Tairawhiti’s cyclone recovery. On Sunday I emailed the editor and voiced my concerns...
The security deal signed this week by Papua New Guinea and the United States is a major counter-manoeuvre in the battle for influence in the South Pacific between the US and China. Over the past decade, China has strengthened its ties in the...
Forty minutes after Maraea Smith was shot dead in Titoki Street, Mongrel Mob affiliate Mercedies Grace wandered up to a police cordon, beer in hand, slurring her words, and claiming she knew nothing about it. She initially said she’d been at...
Wairoa’s David Scragg and George Sheild from Tolaga Bay were in the top seven of three events at the “noon call” in the Tux South Island and New Zealand dog trial championships at Balclutha yesterday. Scragg was in the leading group in event...
A nationwide Te Whatu Ora Health NZ pre-employment vaccination policy is under development. The Government’s Covid-19 vaccination mandate, or compulsory vaccination for health workers, has been lifted, but a Te Whatu Ora Tairāwhiti spokeswoman...