Overseeing the building of a new multi-purpose complex in Invercargill is the new challenge facing Tairāwhiti Museum’s departing director Eloise Wallace. She talks to Loren Sirl . . . Tairāwhiti Museum’s director of eight-and-a-half years...
The naming of a new lake between Gisborne and Wairoa was one of the most high-profile of 265 place- naming decisions made by the New Zealand Geographic Board last year, Andrew Ashton reports. The naming of Lake Te Horonui, a lake formed in the wake...
Loren Sirl encourages wannabe travellers to get out of their comfort zone and take a leap into the wonderful global community. She took the leap and made it happen. Here is how she did it . . . Have you abandoned all hope of travelling overseas?...
Searing summer heat can play havoc in the garden. Mitre 10 has a helpful plan to keep the plants thriving and prolonging the abundant January harvest. KITCHEN GARDEN Water less often but more thoroughly. The water needs to reach the subsoil to the...
The tantalising aroma of spicy lentils is nearly as satisfying as each mouthful. Enjoy this Every Week Tomato Lentils recipe from Eleanor Ford’s The Nutmeg Trail: A Culinary Journey Along The Ancient Spice Routes. Carrot and beetroot with tark...
Tairāwhiti paddlers are setting new marks before racing even starts in the waka ama national sprint championships at Lake Karapiro tomorrow. Self Storage Gisborne Horouta Waka Hoe Club has 264 registered paddlers competing at the nationals. They...
Thursday was a huge night for premier grade cricket at the Harry Barker Reserve. T15 Walker Shield leaders Coastal Concrete Old Boys Rugby beat the holders of all of the three first-grade championships, Bollywood High School Old Boys, by 13 runs and...
Today will be a big one at the Harry Barker Reserve. On turf pitches baked in 27-degree heat, the showpiece of Poverty Bay club cricket — the DJ Barry Cup two-day Premier Grade championship — will start at 11am. David Situ’s Breakers Horout...
New Zealand has joined seven other countries in lending support to air strikes by the US and Britain on military sites in Yemen used by the Iranian-backed Houthi rebel group, in retaliation for its attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea since...
Gwynne Dyer Taiwan’s fate is as unknowable as usual, even though we know who the next president will be. William Lai, vice-president under outgoing President Tsai Ing-Wen, will almost certainly win the election today, because the two opposition...
John Wells Re: Spraying of Taruheru River spartina grass. Please stop this madness — the basis of this work is totally wrong! Rather than the early 1900s, the spartina grass was planted in the 1950s by community volunteers in collaboration with...
In November or December, 1964, the Gisborne Jaycees were tasked with planting spartina grass in the Taruheru River in front of the Botanical Gardens. The Jaycees were asked to do this as the Taruheru River was heavily polluted with all sorts of...
I have recently had occasion to witness distressed dogs left in cars on two occasions. In the first instance on an extremely hot day, the windows hadn’t been left open sufficiently and the car wasn’t in the shade. I guessed that the owner would...
I write on behalf of The Moananui Longboard Club who have been mentioned kindly in a recent Gisborne Herald. Thank you for printing those fine words. We, as a club, must recognise “Mr Gisby” and company for the collective “great example”...
by Doug Laing The shearing sports competition season resumes today with the Peninsula Duvauchelle Shears in Bank’s Peninsula settlement Duvauchelle. Amid the hype of a few world record attempts in the woolsheds at the peak of the shearing season...
After the abysmal summer of 2023 in Tairāwhiti, many people are welcoming the warm dry weather. But when it’s too hot there are health risks, says Te Whatu Ora Tairāwhiti medical officer of health Dr Anura Jayasinghe. “It’s especially...
Make the most of the sun — next week sees the unwelcome return of rain and sticky, sub-tropical weather. That is the consensus of various models for the days ahead, with MetService issuing its latest outlook for the period following this weekend...
With temperatures soaring into the high 20s yesterday, Woolworths shoppers were left unable to buy iceblocks or chilled items due to a technical glitch. “Unfortunately, the refrigerators at our Gisborne store have temporarily broken down due to...
A disabled truck was towed to Gisborne for repairs on Thursday night after a small electrical fire started under the cab of the transporter on Traffords HIll on State Highway 2. Gisborne Hiabs were called to the scene to recover the damaged vehicle...
Health NZ figures show 44 deaths from Covid 19 have been reported in the week ending at midnight on Sunday. None of those deaths occurred in Tairāwhiti, but there are 68 active cases in the district. There have been 25,927 cases in Tairāwhiti...
The New Zealand Transport Agency Waka Kotahi is urging motorists to respect roadworkers this summer. “Every day roadworkers receive abuse from people passing through their worksites. That’s not acceptable,” an NZTA satement said. “Be patient...
A $1 million-winning Lotto ticket sold to a mystery Gisborne resident has been claimed. “We can confirm that the $1 million Lotto First Division prize won by a MyLotto player in Gisborne on January 3 has been claimed,” a Lotto NZ spokeswoman...
Wairoa residents still have time to submit their thoughts about how Hawke’s Bay Regional Council sets their rates. The regional council is encouraging the community to make submissions on its consultation on the principles of how rates are set and...
There were just 223 sheep yarded in the weekly sale at the Matawhero saleyards yesterday, including 63 prime sheep, 136 store lambs and 24 store ewes. AS & KM Bush sold six heavy prime lambs for $101.50, while K Briant sold two heavy prime ewes...
Matawai mum of two, farmer and well-performed shearer Catherine Mullooly produced what Sir David Fagan described as a “brilliant” effort on Wednesday near Te Kuiti when she smashed the women’s world record for strongwool ewes. She eclipsed the...
A sex offender jailed for 11 years is being allowed to appeal his sentence even though it was imposed on him more than three years ago and even though he has already abandoned a previous appeal. Paul Elvis Rawiri McLean was sentenced to the prison...
Choosing Bayleys Gisborne to sell his cyclone-damaged house, resulted in a Gisborne man being $25,000 better off, just before Christmas. That was because he was the realty company’s 25th anniversary prize draw, which saw a number of vendors...
Specialist clinical nurse Jax Atkins has stepped into a newly created position designed to improve healthcare for whānau on the East Coast. The new role came about in response to knowing that those based on the Coast are often unable to make it...
Fire and Emergency NZ has asked the public to be extremely careful with fires in the open this weekend with the mercury set to reach 31 degrees today and tomorrow, and with north-westerly winds. Tairāwhiti remains in an open fire season, which...
Ūawa Tolaga Bay will have a new pump track in the town’s park to help rejuvenate the area and offer another asset for community to use. The concept for a pump track in Ūawa started when Tairāwhiti Adventure Trust (TAT) were constructing the...
by Hamish Bidwell, Hawke’s Bay Today Remote doesn’t mean out of sight, when it comes to the poaching of pāua. Police and Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) staff stopped and eventually seized a vehicle on Māhia East Coast Rd on Wednesday...
by Kate Green, RNZ A former National minister and deputy chair of Te Urewera Board has accused energy company Genesis of negligence in its management of weeds at Lake Waikaremoana. The East Coast’s Great Walk at the lake reopened yesterday after...
by Doug Laing and Murray Robertson Shearing legend Sir David Fagan has described the world record-breaking effort by Catherine Mullooly on Wednesday as “brilliant”, and said despite “stroppy” sheep, she maintained her shearing standards. The...
There’s a better prognosis for Tairāwhiti cancer patients in the latest Health NZ/Te Whatu Ora report. Every eligible cancer patient received their first treatment within 31 days of a decision to treat by a health professional during the first...