Enhance your garden with colourful annuals that offer a spectrum of hues and easy-care options for a stunning summer display. One of the best ways to get quick colour into your garden is with flowering annuals. Modern forms of annual plants have...
The extended interview given yesterday by former Cabinet Minister and East Coast MP Kiri Allan makes sad reading and shows again the potential for mental health challenges caused largely by stress on those who have decided on the political life. The...
Life’s full of surprises! Out of the blue comes “A plan to get us moving” (front page Jan 23). And what a surprise; after spending around half a million dollars on building a roundabout to replace the traffic lights at the bridge end of Peel...
Interesting contribution from Simin Williams, who was seriously inconvenienced by a nice but apparently unwelcome lady from Stats NZ. Seems Simin was caught up in a Post Enumeration Survey. I’ve never experienced the thrill of a PES — I actually...
Re: Don’t need more cycleways (Whaea Sue says). The last thing Tuuranga needs is more cycleways and associated M.A.M.I.L.S (Middle Aged Men In Lycra Suits). Be a real man and in your mid-life crisis, get a sports car and drive it like Possum —...
Gwynne Dyer Fascism is on the march everywhere!’ shrieked the headline on a recent think-piece by my least favourite foreign affairs commentator (who must remain nameless because I don’t want to give him any publicity). But articles and op-eds...
Two of New Zealand’s top showjumpers are in town for the Larsen Sawmilling Equestrian Champs, but they’ve not brought their top horses. Instead, Olympian Maurice Beatson (Dannevirke) and FEI World Cup (NZ League) Series winner Brooke Edgecombe...
Surf lifeguards from around the country are at Mount Maunganui this weekend to compete in one of the biggest surf life saving events in the country. The Gisborne clubs will be ready for action. This year, surf lifeguards from 34 clubs, including...
The 33rd Larsen Sawmilling Equestrian Championships got off to a cracking start yesterday morning. Locals to shine early in the main arena were Cindy Kershaw aboard Kiwi Vision who won the open horse 1.15m for horses seven and under and Holly Baines...
Civic-minded 16-and 17-year-olds will remain disenfranchised after the new Government put the kibosh on plans to let them vote in local elections. The plans were warmly welcomed by Wairoa District Council but Local Government Minister Simeon Brown...
Just 399 sheep were sold yesterday at the Matawhero Saleyards, comprising mostly of store ewes suitable for mating. Store lambs are mostly being kept away from auction, due to low prices and good pasture being plentiful. Willows Agriculture Ltd, at...
Registrations continue to be taken for the Beef + Lamb NZ “Wormwise” workshop in Gisborne on the afternoon of February 8. The latest information and research on internal parasite control will be presented, with the workshop facilitated by Greg...
A successful fundraising event hosted recently by Tairāwhiti Multicultural Council (TMC) showcased culinary delights from South America, Asia, Africa and the Pacific. The Food Festival was held at Gisborne Boys’ High School and attracted...
A buzz of excitement is flowing through the fluid power industry with the introduction of a New Zealand Qualifications Authority-approved training programme — the first of its kind in the hydraulics and pneumatic industry. The New Zealand...
The Rakahinonga Roadshow created by Tapuwae Roa is heading to Tairāwhiti to help ignite Māori entrepreneurship. Facilitated by business mentor Saara Tawha, of Ramaroa Ltd, and Amy McLean, founder of Te Kainga Wāhine, the aims of the interactive...
Day 1 of the annual Bay Bonanza fishing competition was cancelled yesterday but Gisborne Tatapouri Sports Fishing Club president Roger Faber said fishing conditions look much better for day two today. The 40th annual event primarily sponsored by the...
One of Gisborne’s most secure buildings is up for sale. NZX-listed company Rua Bioscience is looking for a buyer for its purpose-built manufacturing and laboratory facility at Commerce Place industrial park. The Good Manufacturing...
Eastern Fish and Game NZ has contacted the Bay of Plenty Regional Council about the removal of a stationwagon that plunged off State Highway 2 in the Waioeka Gorge and into the Opato Stream on January 14. Two adults and four children were inside and...
by Claire Trevett, NZ Herald Kiri Allan has spoken about the guilt and shame she felt after the night that led to her quitting politics, saying it was an “intense evening” and she made decisions she will regret for a lifetime. It has been six...
Volunteers working to re-fence East Coast farms hit hard by Cyclone Gabrielle have returned from their summer break to an unwelcome surprise. Over the New Year period, thieves smashed the fuel cap off and syphoned 110 litres of diesel from one of...
Mt Maunganui and the Eastern Regional Championships beckon this weekend for more than 30 of the district’s surf lifeguards, and while it’s a smaller contingent than in years gone by, it will be big on performance. Gisborne’s Sonia Keepa, Surf...
The first Bowls Gisborne-East Coast centre events for 2024 — held last weekend — showcased the resilience of the district’s lawn bowlers. Te Karaka Bowling Club hosted the men’s centre triples for the Terry Gardiner Memorial Trophy. It was...
HORSE SPORTS An “East Coast cowboy vibe” was the quality that Ūawa Horse Sports Club organisers were aiming to revive with their inaugural horse sports last Saturday. A field of 108 competitors ranging in age from four to 60-plus gathered at...
Grit was the defining characteristic of Senior B club cricket on Saturday. Rawhiti Legal Old Boys Rugby beat Campion College by one wicket, Breakers Horouta Te Waka beat Chicking High School Old Boys by one wicket and Civil Project Solutions Ngatap...
An email to Health Minister Shane Reti from Rob Campbell, the outspoken former chairman of Te Whatu Ora - Health NZ, was published on the NZ Herald website yesterday. He started by saying Reti’s public comments about wanting to apply real focus to...
Roger Handford The front-page item quoting Dr Murry Cave on erosion told us what we already know and went nowhere with any proposed strategy. I take issue with what was said because Dr Cave omitted to mention the two very large and related elephants...
Sunday is a day “to rev up your excitement”. East Coast Museum of Technology president Harrison Hill is looking forward to the museum’s Live Day and warmly welcomes the public to attend. “Live Day offers a unique blend of history, hands-on...
Nearly half of a pod of dolphins had died while the rest were badly injured by the time they were stranded a second time near Māhia, making euthanisation a “welfare decision”, says marine mammal welfare trust Project Jonah. The pod of around 40...
The latest extended forecasts indicate a wet week ahead, suggesting we make the most of the next few days. The MetService outlook for the weekend is for fine weather but a change to southeasterly conditions on Monday will bring rain. At this stage...
New Zealanders are now able to subscribe to receive notifications to their mobile phone when MetService issues a Red Warning for severe weather or if there is an extreme fire danger risk. The partnership with Fire and Emergency New Zealand will help...
Awatere Bridge on East Cape Road has been fully repaired and reopened to all traffic almost a year after it was badly damaged during Cyclone Gabrielle. It was one of 10 bridges in the region that suffered significant structural issues that required...
The number of rental houses available in Gisborne is not keeping up with “skyrocketing” demand and is resulting in higher rent, new data shows. Trade Me property sales director Gavin Lloyd says New Zealand rental prices have recorded an all-time...
A Gisborne seafood company is warning efforts to restrict fishing in the Hauraki Gulf could have “significant” unintended and negative consequences on the East Coast. The Hauraki Gulf/Tīkapa Moana Marine Protection Bill seeks to contribute to...
This season has been a tough one for Eastern North Island (CRA3) fishers. Bad weather, lower than average catch numbers and declining cray population generally, lower than average port prices, and now - in the middle of it all – a toxic algal...