Tairawhiti residents have been reminded by Gisborne District Council to burn only dry, suitable, firewood and keep chimneys clean and maintained to minimise air pollution. During winter air quality usually declines due to smoke from woodburners and...
PGG Wrightson Seeds held the first of their 2017 Seeds in Action field days at the end of January at their newest demonstration site opposite the Matawhero sale yards. Company spokeswoman Lucy Evans said they invest over $10 million a into research...
Someone had a lucky escape from this vehicle either late on Saturday night or in the early hours of Sunday on Wainui Road between Harris and Hirini streets. Police are still investigating but it appears the Ford Falcon's roof came out the better -...
In terms of expenditure, the council is now halfway through the $22 million DrainWise effort to reduce wastewater discharges into city rivers and on to people’s properties during heavy rain. However, an update to councillors for their meeting on...
Registrations are coming in fast for the Memory Walk next weekend and Alzheimers Gisborne are doing everything possible to make it bigger and better than before. Alzheimers Gisborne manager Janet Willson is looking forward to a good turnout from the...
The body of a woman found in a vacant house near Ruatoria last weekend has been identified. Police this morning said she was Kathleen Kawana, 46, from Porirua. The inquiry into how she died continues.“Her death is still being treated as...
I wish to send a bouquet to the caretakers of Taruheru Cemetery. They have done a wonderful job of maintaining the lawns and gardens. Even the older part of the cemetery is also very well looked after. Very much appreciated. Thank you. Alison Duncan
A FARM worker was injured this morning when the All-Terrain-Vehicle he was operating crashed on a hillside on a farm paddock on a property between Nuhaka and Morere. The emergency services, including the Trust Tairawhiti rescue helicopter, were...
FORMER head of the Gisborne CIB Craig Scott points to the declining number of serious child assault cases nationally and hopes New Zealand has turned a corner with the serious problem. Detective Inspector Scott has been based in Wellington as part of...
Rainwater tanks seen as viable alternative, second referendum to be held
In a second diving incident at the weekend, also in the Tatapouri area, two men were gathering kaimoana on Saturday afernoon when the boat they were using dragged its anchor and the motor would not start. One of the men was some distance from the...
A grandfather accused by his seven-year-old granddaughter of sexually assaulting her has denied the allegation before a jury in Gisborne District Court. His counsel told jurors to closely consider how it came about. The accused man, who has interim...
A man's out-of-line behaviour in his car and a minor theft caused at least two motorists to fear for their safety. Mathew Glyn Walton faced charges in Gisborne District Court of possessing a knife in a public place, threatening to kill, driving...
One striped marlin was tagged and released, and 12 yellow tuna were caught yesterday, on the first day of Gisborne's biggest game fish contest. Regan Hurring caught a 15.96kg yellow fin, and Paul Pardoe a yellow fin that weighed in at...
A Gisborne infrastructure company has been awarded funding for a New Zealand-first heavy electric vehicle trial. Energy and Resources Minister Megan Woods says Eastland Group has been awarded $177,000 from the Low Emission Vehicles Contestable Fund...
WINTER has finally arrived and with it a strengthened relationship between Turanga Health and Curtain Bank Gisborne. More families are getting help to stay warm. Established in 2009 to provide made-to-measure curtains for people on low incomes...
The council proposal for Gisborne’s coastal bay to be renamed Turanganui a Kiwa/Poverty Bay is a good one — officially reclaiming the original name for our place, while retaining our other historical and, in the case of Gisborne, widely-known...
What have the Romans ever done for us? I propose London changes back to its original name, which could have been Llyn Dain, Welsh for “pool of the Thames”, or Llan Dian, referring to the Temple of Diana which was supposed to have stood where St...
The young teams in Senior B club cricket are doing it hard and that's how it should be. Both Gisborne Boys' High School (2) and Campion College had a tough weekend, up against good older teams at the Harry Barker Reserve. Nor did Hope Cup holders...
SATISFACTION levels with the services provided by Gisborne District Council remain high according to information contained in the 2016/17 annual report. The council was told that 60 percent of residents rated the council’s performance as good or...
The National Party released an economic policy discussion document this week, with the attention-grabbing headlines that it would “set a bonfire on regulations” and commit to progressively raising the retirement age from 65 to 67, starting in...
The latest World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Living Planet Report has found that half a century of human activity has decimated global wildlife populations by an average of 68 percent. The study analysed population sizes of 4392 monitored species of mammals...
Incumbent Gisborne district councillor Shannon Dowsing told Thursday’s candidates meeting at Holy Trinity that he was going to make an unpopular statement.“Council is actually doing very well,” he said. The council was “right on budget”...
Poverty BayGOUT in his foot kept Wynne MacLellan out of golf for over two months. He’s back and on Sunday booked himself a place in the semifinals of the senior men’s club championships. The 60-year-old, who qualified 13th for the champs in his...
The Spring Show will go down as one of the district's best and, as usual, it was a family affair again, just ask the Teutenbergs from Hinenui Genetics (pic 1) who took home the T.S White Memorial shield in the wool section. The stock competitions...
A SLICK Waikohu side outclassed Horouta Gold in Gisborne premier grade netball at the YMCA last night. Claydens Waikohu (1) now have the same points total (28) as YMP, who remain on top of the table by virtue of a better goal differential. In the...
Surf lifeguards from the Waikanae and Midway clubs will be in action at Mt Maunganui tomorrow in a carnival staged to give them something to make up for the cancellation of the New Zealand championships. Surf Life Saving New Zealand this week...
Public riots in London's Hyde Park in 1855 gave rise to the free-speech tradition that continues today at the park's Speakers' Corner, and it was partly the soapbox orators' theatricality that inspired the show, The Man. The performer behind the...
A correspondent this week said there were suggestions council-controlled Gisborne Holdings Ltd “adopt the Eastland Group model, with a commercial board of mostly out-of-town directors” — and asked how it would perform without the monopoly...
THE congregations of St Andrews, St Davids and Matawhero Presbyterian churches in Gisborne have welcomed a new minister into their ranks and for the three churches it ends lengthy periods without one. The Reverend Mary Petersen has been in Gisborne...
THE final Chorus design cabinet design has gone up and it takes a different direction to the previous four. In those four, Amie Coker created a stylised depiction of Turanganui a Kiwa-Poverty Bay, Julianne Poninghouse painted a Kaiti Beach scene...
Like the millennium and Gisborne’s opportunity as first city in the world to see the sun, the Tuia 250 commemoration of first formal meetings here between Maori and Europeans, in October this year, has focused minds on the legacy potential of...
Two caravans stolen from their freedom camping spots at Pouawa yesterday morning were removed with the wheel clamps still attached. One of the caravans was recovered in Glenroy Road, 7km north of Pouawa, with a missing wheel. Both caravans were...
Hospice Tairawhiti general manager Barbara Grout says there is absolutely no truth to the rumour that people visiting its Peel Street shop need to be tested for Covid.“We had a call from a visitor to the shop who said she had been contacted by...