Gisborne Herald 6.04.24
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Weekender 6.04.24
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Six60 Grassroots Tour starts next week
New Zealand rockers Six60 are counting down to the start of their Grassroots Tour next week — a 24-concert tour during which they will head down State Highway 35 and on to Beach Road, Tokomaru Bay (pictured), for their 10th show at Te Puka Tavern...
Te Araroa Aerodrome opening shifted to Sunday, April 14
The date has been changed for the official opening of the Te Araroa Aerodrome, from Friday April 12, to Sunday April 14. “The date has been changed to the weekend to allow many of the private aircraft owners and others, who found it difficult to...
Chances of quake, tsunami outlined
THERE is no stopping a tsunami or predicting when one will occur, but the warning signs will be there, says Kate Boersen of Illuminate Science. She was giving a presentation at the Māhia Golf Club in the first stop of the Hikurangi M9 Roadshow. The...
Easter hunt a roaring success
by Ryan O’Sullivan Woolly fleeces, cool beverages and record numbers of entries and game weighed made for a successful Tiniroto Easter Game Hunt. Celebrating their 20th anniversary, the hunt had 488 registrations with 369 animals weighed. Of the...
2024 Gisborne wine vintage ‘excellent’
The grapes have all been picked in this season’s wine vintage in Tairāwhiti. While yields have been down, the grape quality has been excellent, says Gisborne Winegrowers chairman Mark Thompson. The last of the grapes, reds merlot and...
97 pēpē born in Tairāwhiti in January and February
New figures from Health NZ Tairāwhiti show 61 pēpē (babies) were born in January and 36 in February at Gisborne Hospital’s Puawai Aroha Maternity Unit. In January there were 35 boys and 26 girls born, with the heaviest baby weighing 4650 grams...
Making progress on freshwater management
Gisborne District Counci’s freshwater planning has been impacted by severe weather events and policy changes made by the new Government. A report to a full council meeting said staff working on the the Waiapu Catchment Plan were procuring...
Unbelieve-a-Bubble: Whiz Bang fun show breaking down science stereotypes
Getting children and adults alike excited about science is the aim of Whizz Bang Science creator Emma Lucas’ show which she is bringing to Gisborne next week. The Unbelieve-a-Bubble Science Show has inspired sold-out audiences across the North...
More on state of region’s economy
The Infometrics economic monitor for the region that is commissioned by Trust Tairāwhiti contains useful insights on economic, labour market, housing and social indicators. The December 2023 quarterly monitor was released last week, with the...
Season starts with Tiny White opener
Poverty Bay club rugby’s community event of 2024 takes place tomorrow at the Gisborne Oval. This season is boosted by the inclusion of Wairoa-based Tapuae in the premier grade and a Waikohu team in the senior 1 grade. Tomorrow the Oval will be the...
Hard chargers in line for trophies
Coveted trophies go on the line at Gisborne Speedway Club’s track tomorrow night and the drivers will be going hard out to win them. The Roseland Tavern Stock Car Classic has always brought out the best in this class and there will be some hard...
Tough assignment awaits GBHS
More big guns have drawn a bead on the Rectory. After a year off, the man who led Kelston Boys’ High School to back-to-back Auckland 1A rugby titles in 2021 and 2022, Matt Howling, has again brought his crew here to battle the Gisborne Boys’...
Win and a loss in Fed Cup openers
Gisborne United got their competitive season off to a winning start with a 3-2 victory over Palmerston North side Takaro Jokers in a Central Federation Cup match at Marewa Park, Napier, on Saturday. The day before, Thistle lost their cup match 6-3...
Thistle in Taradale opener
Kick-off at 1pm in Hawke’s Bay tomorrow could be called Electrinet Gisborne Thistle’s moment of truth. Thistle face Taradale in the first game of the nine-team Central Federation League competition. All the preseason training and speculation...
Opening shots in premier netball
The Pak’n Save netball competition begins for 2024 at the Victoria Domain courts tomorrow in the senior, secondary and intermediate grades, while in the premier division eyes will be on the performances of YMP, Horouta and Whangara. Premier and...
Gisborne Herald 5.04.24
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Expanded help for cyclone-stricken homeowners
Temporary Accommodation Assistance will soon be available to more people who cannot live in their homes due to the severe weather events here last year, Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston says. “This will help more people who...
High interest in roading recovery info sessions
Public interest in roading recovery following Cyclone Gabrielle has led to changes in planned public information drop-in sessions. Transport Rebuild East Coast (TREC) is an alliance set up to plan, design and manage the delivery of much of the...
Rocket Lab's next mission to carry payload for Korea programme
Rocket Lab’s next launch from Māhia is a double whammy, with two payloads due to be released into two different orbits. The “Beginning Of The Swarm” mission is scheduled to lift off from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in Māhia, during a 14-day...
Celebrating outstanding exporters
The call has gone out for “amazing stories” of local businesses on the world stage as the ExportNZ ASB Hawke’s Bay Export Awards celebrates its 10th year. The awards celebrate outstanding exporters in the Hawke’s Bay and Gisborne region and...
Busy days at Eastland port
Eastland Port was chocker yesterday and will be again today with kiwifruit and logs being loaded on Wharf 7 and Wharf 8. The second kiwifruit consignment of the season to leave Gisborne by sea is being loaded on to the freighter Crown Opal —...
Roamin finds a new home
There has been a happy ending to the abandoned dog story the Herald ran last month. Roamin, the 18-month-old Labrador/Greyhound cross is roamin’ no more. He was found abandoned in a local forest and cared for by two Gisborne women. Now a Makorori...
Kuru Contracting expands business, buying Rewi Haulage
Directors Chubby Rewi and wife Agnes of log transport company Rewi Haulage have said goodbye to a business they founded 10 years ago. A farewell breakfast was held at the Cossie Club in Gisborne this week with some 60 people attending. Kuru...
Gizzy chopper involved in search for six hours
The Trust Tairāwhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter crews involved in the search for a missing fisherman off the coast of Hawke’s Bay covered over 50 square kilometres of ocean during their 10 hours flying time involved in the extensive search...
Car impounded after rainbow crossing burnout
Police impounded a vehicle allegedly used in a “wheelie” attack on the rainbow crossing in Gladstone Road in the city centre at the weekend. At around 8.30pm on Friday, they were told of a car doing a burnout at the crossing. That vehicle was...
Three-day Te Huinga chance for all kura kaupapa to build whakawhanaungatanga
Te Huinga was a chance for kura kaupapa Māori tauira (students) to connect with others and aspects of te ao Māori through different activities over three days. Te Huinga was born out of the original kaupapa called Hui Tōpū, which was an event...
A creative life in action
At 75, Virginia Christensen has finally decided what she wants to be when she grows up — a painter. Her first solo exhibition opens on Sunday, at The Aviary Collective in Childers Road. Virginia hails from Wellington but spent part of her...
Priscilla has it all
Aspiring musical theatre performers had a chance to strut their stuff on Tuesday night at a dance workshop ahead of auditions for Priscilla Queen of the Desert — The Musical. Director and choreographer Dean McKerras was in town to take the...
Jung ones: Norman Maclean’s novel for YA readers
Sadly, Gisborne artist, teacher, scholar and writer Norman Maclean passed away before the release of his young adult read, Gobby — but it is hard not to see something of the author in the novel’s main character, Sam. Sam is a talented, aspiring...
Golf roundup
Waikohu Te Rata Ritchie is the latest name to be added to one of Waikohu’s most prestigious trophies — The Terry “Dunga” Rutene Memorial Cup. Ritchie beat Terry Reeves in the final of the Rutene cup 4x9-hole Easter matchplay tournament that...
Historic MCC bat changes hands
Wainui Beach School cricket has risen again. In the past two years, under coaches Mike MacLeod and Nic Shand, teachers Jo Shand and Katie Knight, and manager Mike Hope, they have raised their stocks from three cricketers to two teams. Yesterday...