THE launch of Tairawhiti Voyaging Trust’s educational waka hourua is in sight. There has been great progress with the double-hulled waka named Tairawhiti and over the weekend 30 people keen to be volunteer crew took part in Coastguard training...
PAK’nSAVE Gisborne Netball, Saturday —Senior Round 3, Week 4. Duty teams to put up goal pads, set up team benches (courts 1 and 2) and take out bins: Lytton Senior B, Gisborne Girls’ High School Junior A. Duty team to control scorecard room for...
Justine Tyerman behaves in a far from ‘age-appropriate’ manner on a recent trip to the Catlins . . .Woohoo! Book those Easter flights NOW, I shrieked as I spotted the $99 airfares to Queenstown. Feeling daringly-spontaneous, we jumped on the Air...
Do you have any getaway plans for the two consecutive long weekends?
A new crop of talented university graduates have begun to build careers in New Zealand’s rapidly changing agricultural industry thanks to Ravensdown’s development programme. The successful initiative — now in its fifth year — has supported 39...
Re: Port not wanted on Cape, September 14 story. The Crown Infrastructure Partners should invest in our railway line!The offer of $45 million by Hon Shane Jones, Minister for Infrastructure and Minister for Regional Economic Development, for a log...
Tairawhiti Museum was announced last night as the winner of two awards at the Service Q NZ Museum Awards. The Gisborne museum’s exhibition, Taonga Pare-Mata: Mangatu Taonga Returned, won awards in both the Exhibition Excellence Taonga Maori...
SURF LIFESAVINGGOLD medals to Waikanae beach sprinter Chloe Kapene and Midway board rescuers Jack Lepper and Tyron Evans were Gisborne highlights from Day 1 of the Ocean Athletes New Zealand junior surf lifesaving championships at Mount Maunganui...
At home vox pop: What are you missing most during the Covid-19 lockdown
The excitement of a romantic adventure and sex in a triad is at the heart of New Plymouth vocal loop artist EJ Barrett's music video recorded at the War Memorial Theatre on Saturday. The song, Paint Me A Picture, is about representation for the...
Woolly hats will be the order of the day over the next few weeks for nurse Kelly Norris after she shaved her hair off on Saturday in the Shave for a Cure event for Leukaemia and Blood Cancer New Zealand.“My head is much colder than I expected,”...
ENTHUSIASTIC firewood collectors need to be patient to get access to free wood from gum trees that Gisborne District Council will fell on Kaiti Hill/Titirangi Reserve. A group of gum trees alongside the road is being removed because they are dead and...
As a self-confessed (sometimes vehement) critic of this Government, l find being a supporter of at least one of its major announcements all a bit challenging. I base my support in this instance purely on a belief that criticism is only effective when...
Eastern Whio Link wins inaugural grant from new partnership
Uawa just picked up their first win of the season — 28-27 against Ruatoria City on Saturday. The score at Enterprise Cars Whakarua Park in Ruatoria was as true a measure of City's courageous match-effort as it was of Uawa's rugby nous and ability...
HE Pou a Rangi, the Climate Change Commission (CCC), delivered their final advice to the Government at the end of May, and now the Government must release its first emissions reduction plan by the end of the year. The advice outlines how Aotearoa can...
A young Gisborne dancer has been accepted into Australia’s leading commercial and performing arts dance school. Chello Ngata, 17, found out last Thursday she had been accepted into Brent Street Studios on Australia’s Gold Coast — which is like...
Campion College beat Bohemians 4-0 on Sunday to win the Braybrook Cup final and complete the double for Gisborne women's football. Campion had clinched their first women's Eastern League title with a late goal in the last game of the competition...
A meth dealer’s boasts to an undercover cop triggered a new police investigation into his father’s financial affairs and a three-year legal battle over $10 million and 15 commercial properties in Gisborne. More than $10m and a commercial property...
AN independent board member will take part in the code of conduct process initiated by Gisborne District Council to investigate a remark claimed to have been overheard by a councillor, that a colleague said “not enough were killed” during the...
Another New Year’s is behind us as we start to turn our attention to the demands and opportunities that 2019 will bring . . . and that comes with a feeling that this year’s break has been a successful one. After a wet and sometimes gloomy start...
The National Maori hockey tournament started in Gisborne last night with a hard-fought and entertaining encounter between a Tairawhiti men’s team and a Nga Hau e Wha composite side. Nga Hau e Wha won 4-2. This is the first time the tournament has...
Primary school rugby has a new trophy to play for — the George Bridge Shield. It is designed to be a smaller-schools counterpart to the Weka Ball, which is Poverty Bay primary school rugby's equivalent of the Ranfurly Shield. The inaugural game for...
I would like to congratulate Alice Kibble on standing for council. She is an extraordinary young woman with a great love for this community and its people. From an early age she volunteered for organisations, doing anything she could to make...
Muriwai farmer Geoff Tombleson was awarded Life Membership of the Gisborne A and P Show Association at the association's annual general meeting on Thursday night.“Geoff has been active in support of the Spring Show for more than 40 years,” said...
Starting a new business venture can be both an exhilarating as well as stressful time for many entrepreneurial Kiwis. The brave decision to “dip one’s toes” into the world of business should never be taken lightly. It requires everything from...
Beetham Lifestyle Village went into “lockdown” yesterday after a number of residents presented with gastroenteritis. A district health board spokesman said the lockdown was “normal procedure” in such cases. The situation was being closely...
EASTLAND had some close matches on Day 2 of the junior badminton nationals in Palmerston North. Competing in Division 3, Eastland lost to Manawatu (2) 10-6 and to Taranaki 15-1. Against Manawatu, it was 4-4 after the doubles. Manawatu dominated the...
Victor Walker received his New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) from Governor General Dame Cindy Kiro in Wellington this week. Mr Walker was recognised for his 35 years of service to the Māori community in Tairāwhiti. Uawa-based, Mr Walker has...
My thanks to the nurses in the day surgery and theatre who took care of me during my day surgery at Gisborne Hospital recently, as well as the surgeons and the anaesthetist. I was treated with care and attention during the whole procedure. Thank you...
The rain-catcher sculpture at the Botanical Gardens is broken but the damage was not done by vandals.“The sculpture broke after a branch fell from a nearby gum tree last Thursday,” a Gisborne District Council spokeswoman said. However, more...
Two Tairawhiti women and another who has whakapapa here have taken out three of the top awards at the 2018 Maori Sports Awards, which were held on Saturday night in Auckland. Horouta Hoe Waka coach Kiwi Campbell of Ngati Porou, Tuhoe and Te Whanau...
Catherine Gillies thinks all abortions are bad; therefore in her counselling she frames all psycho-social distress as a consequence of abortion, even up to the third generation later, according to her op-ed on August 6. This is frankly ridiculous...