What's On 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. ■ GizzyBorn - NZ Music Month Local Artist Showcase Smash Palace...
It was 2017 and they were flying to a convention of movie theatre owners to drum up excitement for their movie where she, Jane Fonda, Mary Steenburgen and Diane Keaton play friends who decide to read Fifty Shades of Grey
Consciousness cleared its throat and smacked the gavel down. “I call this meeting to order. I have noticed rumblings within the body corporate and I wish to remind everyone that I am in command here. Do I make myself clear?” “Pompous ass,”...
The legacy of this most incompetent Govt of our time seems to be gathering pace as they feel their bumbling tenure may be coming to an end. Just this past fortnight we’ve seen continued strike action from public service workers, we’ve had...
One of the least fortunate side effects of your newspaper being printed in Auckland is that deadlines for copy now seem to be much earlier. For example, the ministerial report into forestry, available last Thursday morning, was not reported in your...
Changes to your newspaper since the start of this month have been significant and we hope it has been a good experience for most of you. Behind the physical changes you see — such as new fonts and colour on all pages — there has been a big shift...
Students wanting to access a career in Medical research here have been given a massive boost with the donation of $715,000. Gisborne’s medical research and education institute Mātai is the recipient, following the winding up of local charity...
No evidence of money laundering but city centre building owners in $11.4m ‘world of trouble’ with IRD
Two days of competition came to an end yesterday as the Gisborne Gymnastics Club hosted the Sport Gisborne Tairāwhiti School Gymnastics Festival. Students from 25 schools from around the region showed their skills on the vault, beam and the floor...
TAIRĀWHITI’S best photographers are invited to take on the rest of New Zealand as the Auckland Festival of Photography Trust announces the 2023 Music Photography Award – Whakaahua Puoro Toa is accepting entries up to Saturday, May 20. “Music...
A Gisborne man critically injured in a vehicle crash at Mahia on Sunday remains in what has been described as a “stable” condition in Wellington Hospital. Poverty Bay-East Coast representative golfer Andrew Higham was on his way home the morning...
There is a reason why the recent Ministerial Inquiry into Land Use should have been a Royal Commission of Inquiry. Put simply, for the sake of accountability. The report is blunt in its findings, largely heaping the blame for poor land-use controls...
NZ Landcare Trust has been acknowledged by the rural community for its dynamic response to the Cyclone Gabrielle clean-up in Te Tairāwhiti. Within days of the devastating cyclone, the independent, non-government organisation kick-started a focused...
It’s that time of year for the annual charity knits sale of new hand-knitted babies’ and children’s knitting and sundry other items. Once again, volunteer knitters have donated over 300 items to be sold at low cost to help families keep their...
Newly-independent MP Dr Elizabeth Kerekere has welcomed the report of the Ministerial Inquiry into Land use . “The advocacy and research of groups such as Mana Taiao Tairāwhiti led to this Ministerial Inquiry. “I am proud to see the report...
The opening weekend of this year’s duckshooting season brought a mixed bag for hunters. Many reported a great start, but others not so great, said Eastern Region senior fish and game officer Matthew McDougall. “After a great breeding season...
Jordan Walker, who stood for the Gisborne District Council in last year’s local body elections, has been selected as the Green Party candidate for East Coast in this year’s general election. Walker (they/them) grew up in Tūranga-nui-a-kiwa and...
The Gisborne International Music Competition (GIMC) and Chamber Music New Zealand (CMNZ) are pleased to announce their exciting music-based programme for Tairāwhiti Gisborne in 2023. This year’s community engagement programme will include...
A truck rollover on the top of Traffords Hill on State Highway 2 on Tuesday afternoon caused what was described as a “huge” build up of traffic heading in both directions. The crash happened at around 2pm and the highway was finally reopened to...
Rocket Lab’s Mahia spaceport will launch more storm-chasing satellites for NASA just two weeks after successfully completing its first launch. The launch, called “Coming To A Storm Near You”, is scheduled for lift-off no earlier than 5.30pm on...
Merv Utting and Bob will be among the Poverty Bay dog trial contingent heading south for the Tux South Island and New Zealand championships at the Warepa Collie Club near Balclutha. The competitions start on Monday (May 22) and run right through the...
The Government’s cyclone recovery package is providing dedicated investment into mental health and wellbeing support, including extending the successful Mana Ake programme developed following the Christchurch quakes into every school in...
COMMENT I agree with Manu Caddie (Gisborne Herald, May 16) that GDC has been caught between central government and th Dame Anne Salmond e forestry industry for generations. Wholesale land clearance of the highly erodible steeplands in Tairāwhiti...
Talented young performing artists here can now join those across the country who are being offered a financial boost thanks to the Dame Malvina Major Foundation. The Foundation’s Arts Excellence Awards support young New Zealanders of outstanding...
Gisborne Basketball Association’s Hoops in Parks Tairāwhiti initiative has been recognised at the 2023 Basketball New Zealand Awards in Wellington. The Kylie Turuwhenua-Tapsell-chaired GBA won the BBNZ Community Innovation Award. The initiative...
Movies will once again be back on the big screen with the Gaiety Theatre projector repaired and ready to roll. A technical breakdown with the Series 1 Christie projector meant the end of local movie screenings in August last year. Since then, the...
A marah Cameron won all-round gold in her division and Sarai Gudgeon won silver in hers at the Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay Senior Gymnastics Championships in Napier. They were among Gisborne Gymnastics Club members competing from Step 4 to Step 7 in...
Eastland representatives returned to Gisborne with two losses after their first-round ties in the 2023 inter-association super veterans’ Division 2 badminton competition in Hawke’s Bay. They played Waikato and Hawke’s Bay. Eastland team...
Gizzy musos have collaborated to bring together seven acts for NZ Music Month this May. Smash Palace will host GizzyBorn a local artist showcase on Saturday night. Acts taking the stage are ‘The Voles’, ‘Natasha Lee’, ‘Levi Mackey’...
First Kicks 4v4, Watson Park , 8.30am: 1, Awapuni Green v Kaiti Paoa; 11, Central Tahi v Te Wharau Kereru; 2, Central Rua v Te Wharau Kiwi; 3, Central Royals v St Mary’s Asteroids; 4, Makauri Warriors v St Mary’s Stars; 5, Te Hapara Toru v...
Re: Toko sports field dispute, May 11 story. Why a dispute? The Commissioner of Crown Lands in 1924 said that it should stay as a sports field! All these years it has been used by sports teams. Four rugby teams in the tournaments in the 1940s —...
by Clive Bibby I have never reacted to a Government-sponsored inquiry with as much sheer disappointment as l do the Hekia Parata-led review of land use in the Tairāwhiti and Wairoa regions. In some ways l am a reluctant responder to a “review”...
The slash and sediment inquiry has recommended that Gisborne District Council’s Resource Management authority be removed and that a Resource Management Commissioner be appointed until 2028. This reflects Council’s failure to adequately monitor...
I am reading and digesting the debate on the place of the forestry industry in our future. Apparently about 40 years ago we collectively decided that pine forests were going to improve the environment and apparently we were wrong. That was the past...