Tairāwhiti crews will take part in the Waka Ama New Zealand Long Distance Nationals at Whitianga on the back of a disrupted training schedule. Mareikura Waka Ama Club crews, especially, have been hampered in their training. Anzac Park has been...
Regular lane swimmers and the general public who want to have a dip at the Olympic Pool will be glad of the news this morning that the water temperature has climbed back up to a balmy 29 degrees. The temperature has risen steadily since temporary...
Gisborne District Council offices in Fitzherbert Street and Te Puia Springs will be closed on Monday and Tuesday next week, along with the HB Williams Memorial Library. The council offices and the library will reopen on Wednesday April 26. The...
Two Gisborne locals are disappointed that organisers of the Mission Estate concert featuring music legends Sir Rod Stewart and Cyndi Lauper in Napier refused to refund or rebook their tickets. Lesley Turnbull and her friend Sally Raine booked...
Refusing to leave his ex-partner’s house where he had outstayed his welcome during a drinking session, a man got in a vehicle and drove it into a cabin on the property, oblivious to the fact there was someone inside it. Driving off, he refused to...
Gisborne Freemasons have handed over $30,000 for the Tairāwhiti Mayoral Relief Fund. All the lodges in New Zealand and some from overseas contributed to the amount. “It is probably the biggest and quickest collection of funds for such a cause in...
Moves are again being made to ensure the region’s children stay snug and warm this winter. Jammies 4 June Gizzy is heading into its seventh year and donations are being taken now, organiser Cassandra Blumfield says. “Jammies 4 June is a winter...
Bricks replaced books as the HB Williams Memorial Library’s popular school holiday programme continued yesterday. Grab Life By The Bricks was the name of a session run by Lego Masters NZ contestant Jono Samson and Nic Peeperkoorn. With such...
Mentally unwell people in Gisborne are being treated “appallingly” by the very service intended to help them, a lawyer says. Mark Sceats spoke passionately about his concern when addressing a judge in Gisborne District Court this week. His...
Gisborne's Cenotaph will be 100 years old on Anzac Day. The Poverty Bay Herald (as it was known back then) estimated 3000 people attended the official opening of what was then named the Gisborne War Memorial on Anzac Day, 1923 — less than five...
Drawing a panda was the theme of a Chinese art workshop at HB Williams Memorial Library last weekend. Scores of children enjoyed painting and learning tricks from the masters of Chinese art: Jinshui Lin and Lei Shuqing. Prior to the workshop, the...
Bombarded by what seems to be an endless series of bad news, from extreme weather to a cost-of-living crisis, it is refreshing to get some positive news in the fact New Zealand is considering a bid for the 2034 Commonwealth Games. The NZ Olympic...
Bob Hughes cannot be allowed to blame colonisation and Pakeha farming methods for all of the deforestation and damage to Aotearoa. “When Māori arrived, about 1250-1300 CE, they burned large tracts of forest, mainly on the coasts and eastern sides...
It’s ironic in an age of information-sharing progressed by technological advancements, that we have self-appointed Information Czars who from their positions in society, determine what information they deem we should know — based solely on their...
An enduring popular myth suggests that in the 1970s the climate science community was predicting “global cooling” and an “imminent” ice age, an observation frequently used by those who would undermine what climate scientists say today about...
I am worried about the trains and the washout. I would like to get the Green Party or the Labour Party to fix our rail line. I have had enough. I am so angry. We will not give up!! Please wake up KiwiRail. We will have another Rail Action Group...
One game in, the outlook for Eastern League men’s football this year seems OK. Eight teams in the first division, nine in the second, and promotion and relegation to take effect at season’s end — the ingredients are there for a modicum of...
Poverty Bay It was not the feat that earned them the “unofficial” honours of world golfing upset of 2018, but it did prove that some dogs have more than one day. Paul Rickard and Brad Morgan won the Tom Shaw Memorial 27-hole open pairs...
Five gymnasts from the Gisborne Gymnastics Club competed in the Mid Island Gym Sports competition in Rotorua at the weekend. For these five gymnasts, who compete in the upper national level, it is important to compete in other regions to gain...
A man facing jail time for two drink-driving charges — both involving high readings — was instead put on home detention, largely because he had been declared legally blind since the offending. Selwyn George Te Puni, 57, was ushered into Gisborne...
A heritage building that the Gisborne District Council placed on private property without the landowner’s permission has a new home with a Tairāwhiti iwi. But a council report on the building — the Inner Harbour Wharf Shed — reveals its...
“There are no small parts, only small actors,” modern theatre innovator Konstantin Stanislavski once said. With a variety of meaty roles behind him, Gisborne actor/singer Andrew Stevens is certainly no small actor — but for an upcoming...
Watch out for the string band The Eastern playing at the Dome next month. The group describes itself as a band which roars like a punk band, swings like a gospel band, drinks like a country band, works like a bar band, hopes like folk singers, sings...
In one of Gisborne photographer Tink Lockett’s large-scale silk prints, a model dressed in a creation by anti-fashion designer Dave Roil poses before a desolate, sun-baked service station. The setting could be somewhere around Barstow, Californi...
Gisborne's Sandra Matthews is standing for election to the Beef + Lamb New Zealand board of directors, an election that was postponed due to Cyclone Gabrielle. Voting papers were sent out on April 12 and should start arriving in the mail this week...
OLIGOI JUG INTERCLUB RESULTS, ROUND 1 — Electrinet Park (1) 6 Waikohu 2 (Park names first): Daniel Collier def David Solomann 4 and 3, Anaru Reedy halved with Glenn Solomann, Peter Stewart def Terry Reeves 6 and 5, Silas Brown halved with Percy...
A couple of rising left-handers could be an important part of the future for Poverty Bay-East Coast representative golf. Zach Rolls, who turned 18 this week, has been steadily progressing since bursting on to the scene as a youngster. He has been...
Co-governance isn’t always race based. We had the National Party government which did, and will do, co-governance under the guise of public-private partnerships, partial asset sales and management contracts. Each one of these were with corporates...
I read in Saturday night’s paper (in a letter to the editor) that I am not the only one who is appalled at the service at the local VTNZ vehicle testing station. I had the unfortunate need to take my daughter’s car back through for a recheck on...
Reaction to the announcement school funding for Years 4 to 8 will increase equivalent to class sizes being reduced by one will have been disappointing for the Government. Prime Minister Chris Hipkins and Education Minister Jan Tinetti, a former...
Most people remember their first few days in a new job, but for Tairāwhiti Police Constable Jacob Samuel only his second shift as a police officer will go down in the history books. Constable Samuel was starting a late shift on his second day on...
The police Impairment Prevention Team ran checkpoints in Gisborne over the weekend targeting drink-driving and speed, and 18 motorists were caught over the drink-drive limit. The focus of the two-day operation was on identifying impaired drivers and...
The first home built at Te Wharau o Hineakua, the Toitū Tairāwhiti Builtsmart facility, has been completed and delivered to a whānau in Whāngārā. On Monday, a significant milestone was reached when the first three-bedroom home was delivered to...