Seventeen properties deemed high-risk, owners to get buyout offer
Government promises support for councils and for owners of flood-hit properties deemed Category 3 after Cyclone Gabrielle
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‘Stepping stone’ for Fed Cup knockout match in Gisborne on Monday
Josh Adams used a game over a week away as motivation for Gisborne United Firsts before their Eastern League 1 match against Wainui Demons. It worked. Heavy Equipment Services Gisborne United beat Coates Associates Wainui Demons 10-1 at Harry Barker...
Ball putt the difference as Poverty Bay win pennants
One shot decided the 2023 Endeavour men’s interclub pennants on Sunday. One putt to be exact. Four rounds, comprising 24 matches for each of the eight teams, came down to two men and the sixth green at Poverty Bay Golf Club. Poverty Bay and...
Golf Roundup
POVERTY BAY Three of last year’s Kahlenberg Cup women’s pairs finalists will appear in the 2023 decider next week. Defending champions Rosie Spence and Di Sherratt advanced to the handicap matchplay final yesterday in emphatic style, dismissing...
TOKA ON TOP
Tokararangi are setting the pace four weeks in. Under Rapata Haerewa, the Te Araroa-based club have won three of four games but have unbeaten Hikurangi Te Maunga, with a game in hand, breathing down their necks. Placings in the seven-team H Blackbee...
Willie Jackson for Ikaroa-Rāwhiti?
The hunt for a new candidate in the Ikaroa-Rāwhiti electorate was a running joke at the Māori Ministers’ post-Budget breakfast last Wednesday, after incumbent Meka Whaitiri jumped from the Labour waka a month ago to stand for Te Pāti Māori at...
Americans and Kiwis tolerate needless deaths
Wayne Scott Every week this year on average, one or more New Zealand workers will likely be killed in a workplace accident. America’s continuing mass shooting tragedies confirm for many Kiwis the insane nature of that nation’s tolerance for...
Forestry industry fails its contractors
Re: Demise of two forestry contractor businesses sparks fears for industry, May 30 story. I really feel for the contractors being left in the lurch by forest owners. But calls for the Govt to step in and subsidise wages is a bridge way too far. The...
‘Real story’ about trucks on Awapuni Rd
Re: 4.30am wake-up by logging trucks, May 26 letter. There are a lot of things you can do to help you sleep. There are also many people who start work at 4.30am or earlier — the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker are up and going to work...
A watchmaker’s history . . .
A book review — Hands of Time by Rebecca Struthers. This might seem a “dusty” subject but is extremely interesting, on a few fronts. The author has a Ph. D in antiquarian horology. The history of timepieces is covered, including...
Odd lines on offer at strong cattle fair
A total of 945 cattle sold in the Cattle Fair at Matawhero saleyards on Tuesday, in a sale that can best be described as an opportunity for many farmers to sell odd lines, in preparation for winter. However, there were several pens of rising...
Call for slash clean-up help
Gisborne District Council is asking anyone in Tairāwhiti with the capacity, capability, and the right equipment to get large woody debris out of the region’s waterways to get in touch, and soon. Chief executive Nedine Thatcher Swann said...
Surfers’ critical role in rescues
New data has highlighted the crucial role surfers play in carrying out surf rescues across New Zealand, and there have been instances of that happening on Tairāwhiti beaches. There have been a few reported rescues by boardriders in this district...
300 damage sites on Wairoa-Napier rail line
KiwiRail cannot give a timeline on how long it will take to repair the Wairoa to Napier railline. The rail line is part of the Palmerston North to Wairoa main truck line but was wrecked by Cyclone Gabrielle in February. The line to Hastings reopened...
Transport agency advises motorists ahead of long weekend
Motorists have been advised to “take it easy” on the highway south out of Tairāwhiti to Hawke’s Bay over this King’s Birthday weekend. That’s the message from Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency. “State Highway 2 between Wairoa and Napier...
Looking ahead to a warm wet June
Looks like it is going to stay soggy underfoot, if MetService’s latest monthly outlook is anything to go by. The official weather agency is forecasting a “stormy and unsettled June”, with it being wetter than usual in many places. MetService...
Agriculture Minister assures more recovery support to farmers in cyclone-impacted region
Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor toured several cyclone-impacted areas of the region on Tuesday and has assured growers and farmers more recovery support is coming from the Government. The Minister visited the Wi Pere Trust operation at Te...
Introducing hi-viz occupations to female secondary school students
Female secondary school students are donning hi-viz vests and turning their hand to driving diggers and trucks, climbing power poles and checking out some of New Zealand’s largest energy generating assets while they suss out a career in the...
‘Diabolical’ state of road upsetting residents
A group of Waipaoa residents is calling on the district council to fix their rural road after silt from cleared drains turned their thoroughfare into “greased lightning”. David Hunt lives about 20 kilometres out of town on Branson Rd, an are...
GDC ticking off milestones as Kiwa Pools opening nears
The $46 million Kiwa Pools facility is almost complete. “We are planning for a Kiwa Pools opening in time for spring,” Gisborne District Council chief executive Nedine Thatcher Swann said. Delays had been experienced in the construction due to...
Forestry contractor shuts up shop, ‘devastated’
A Gisborne forestry contracting business owner is “devastated” about having to pull the pin on his 23-year-old company. Robert Stubbs owns Stubbs Contractors Ltd and forestry has been his life. Before owning the business, he spent 10 years...
Crowd turns out to support Theresa Zame at protest about proposed changes to medicine law
Gisborne was a symphony of car horns at lunchtime yesterday as a group of more than 50 people gathered to protest about proposed changes to the country’s medicine laws. The lunchtime demonstration at Heipipi Endeavour Park was organised by Theres...
What's on in Gizzy
This Week ■ Thursday Build-a-Band Smash Palace Bar, 24 Banks St, 7pm-11pm, free entry. ■ Friday Night Karaoke Breakers Jandal Bar, from 8pm to midnight, free entry. ■ NZ Highwaymen War Memorial Theatre, Thursday, June 1. Four of NZ’s...
Love Letters: True lovers on paper, if not on earth
Gone are the days when hopelessly romantic couples would often exchange the secret letters of admiration for each other in scented and clumsy envelopes. Evolution Theatre’s newest production Love Letters looks to bring back the lost artform that...
Gisborne Film Guide
Odeon Multiplex Bank of Dave Dave Fishwick, a Burnley working-class, self-made millionaire, struggles to set up a community bank to help the town’s local businesses thrive. To do so, he must battle London’s elite financial institutions and...
Little Mermaid makes a $95.5m box office splash
The Little Mermaid made US moviegoers want to be under the sea on Memorial Day weekend. Disney’s live-action remake of its 1989 animated classic The Little Mermaid easily outswam the competition, bringing in $95.5 million on 4320 screens in North...
Prizes to be won at Boogie Wonderland disco
For the fifth year in a row, Smash Palace will host Boogie Wonderland, an ode to the 70s era, that is best remembered for its discotheques, funky sounds, trippy lights, reflective disco balls and cool dance moves. To keep the vibe colourful...
Gizzy inspired book a finalist in awards
Kāpiti Coast student Arlo Kelly is among the writers and illustrators announced today as finalists in this year’s New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults —the pre-eminent celebration of books for Aotearoa’s young readers...
Leppänen recreates Baroque classics
Experience the magic of Baroque music in Gisborne as iconic concertmaster Vesa-Matti Leppänen leads the Baroque Innovations Tour this month. The tour is organised by New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and arrives at the War Memorial Theatre with its...
Piano Extravaganza repertoire features old masters and modern
Be ready to be enthralled by the thirteenth Piano Extravaganza (PEXIII), as part of the St Andrew’s Lunchtime concert series this King’s birthday next week. The first of these piano concerts in 2011 was suggested by pianist and organist Sonj...
Guilty plea after baby nearly died
A Gisborne man has pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm to an infant. The baby boy’s injuries were so severe, doctors did not expect him to survive. He now has extreme and permanent brain damage. For legal reasons, the man responsible...
‘Repair, rebuild and revitalise’: Wairoa's community spirit impresses
Regions across Aotearoa New Zealand could probably learn a thing or two from Wairoa . . . especially when it comes to rolling up the sleeves and mucking in. Cyclone Gabrielle decimated Wairoa’s much-loved A&P Showgrounds. Water and silt ripped...
Environment nurtured at Turihaua
award-winning farmers Paul and Sarah Williams are farming for today with a keen eye to the future to ensure the cherished land at Turihaua is in the best possible shape for future generations. With three of their own children, they know only too...
No one exercises until they have a heart attack
by St John Craner Denial is a coping mechanism: “If I ignore it, it might go away.” The signs are there to tell you something. Yet most people never take action until they are forced to take action. Newton’s law of motion explains this human...