Just after World War 2, my home suburb of Bootle in Liverpool had the first Play Street — Beatrice Street. As the internet reveals, these were a product of the Street Playgrounds Act 1938. The aim was to provide safer streets to play in at a time...
Re: Annual longboard contest supports Tauawhi kaupapa, December 6 story. Let’s hope Makorori beach turns it on for the competitors. My only misgiving is the infamous speedo or budgie smugglers contest. Even though I’m not sure of the judging...
Summer camping is gathering momentum around the district as the holiday period and peak summer approaches. Gisborne District Council has reminded campers to provide the number of people staying at camp sites. “If you’re planning a camping trip...
People packing up and heading away for the Christmas and New Year period have been reminded to ensure any firearms are kept safe while they are on holiday. “Getting ready to head away for holidays can be a stressful time,” said Te Tari Pūreke...
St John Ambulance staff checked over the occupants of two cars that collided in the city yesterday morning. No one was significantly injured in the crash. It happened at the Gladstone Road-Desmond Road corner at around 8.50am. It was reported as...
Stricken solo yachtsman Seth van Mechelen has an eye on the weather as he prepares to sail away from Gisborne early next week. The 21-year-old battled five-metre swells and strong winds when he and his boat Luna hit the southerly storm that lashed...
The Gizzy Monthly Market Christmas series kicks off this Saturday at Marina Park. Sixty stalls will be set up for the four-hour event which starts at 9am. “Come and support our local creators and their amazing products by joining us at our first...
The Silver Muse will be the next cruise ship to visit Gisborne and, weather permitting, the Silversea Cruises ship will go to anchor in Tūranganui-a-Kiwa/Poverty Bay at about 10am on Monday. The ship arrives from Tauranga and will sail for Napier...
A central city drop-in immunisation clinic is making it easier for parents and caregivers to catch up on their children’s immunisations. Te Whatu Ora Tairāwhiti’s Well Child Service has opened a drop-in immunisation clinic at 295 Palmerston...
Firefighters reponded to burning vegetation at Makorori and to a car on fire on the outskirts of the city overnight Wednesday/Thursday. They responded with a fire appliance and a water tanker to the fire at Makorori after a passerby reported what...
A man was taken to Gisborne Hospital for treatment yesterday after suffering smoke inhalation after a pot of oil overheated and caught fire on the stove at a house in Russell Street. Fire and Emergency NZ responded to the incident a few minutes...
A massive footpath repair programme has started around Gisborne and will continue until May of next year. Gisborne District Council’s Journeys operations manager Libby Young said there was a big push to respond to an increased number of faults...
When it comes to reasons for speeding, Eastern Police District highway patrol officers have heard it all. From stuck jandals to stressed-out dogs, lead-footed motorists have used all sorts of excuses to get out of a speeding fine. “Summer’s here...
It’s time to try again. After the disruptions of Covid-19 and cyclones, Relay for Life returns next year, to the A&P Showgrounds, and over the full 24 hours. Relay For Life Te Ara Toiora will be earlier in March than in previous years, on...
Documentary series wins best sports programme at national television awards.
Tairāwhiti must unite and plan to recover from future natural disasters without government funding, a top New Zealand economist has warned. That was one of the key points raised in a speech by economist Shamubeel Eaqub at Wainui Surf Life Saving...
Don’t be deceived by appearances. Dorothy M Fletcher may seem like a mild mannered, choral-singing retiree, but in truth she has a penchant for murder . . . Dorothy has written Caroling Catastrophe which opens at Unity Theatre tonight. She is the...
Dudley Meadows, curator of the Millard Studio exhibition at Tairāwhiti Museum, will give a floor talk at the museum on Sunday, January 21, where he will share some of the untold stories behind the photographs. He will also give more background...
Art panels inspired by the concept of kaitiakitanga or guardianship and produced by a group of Year 10 art students will soon have pride of place in the school hall at Gisborne Girls’ High School. The art project involved a lot of research and...
A quote that resonates with Gisborne artist Erika Holden is from Pablo Picasso: “Art wipes from the soul the dust of everyday life.” Erika has an exhibition, which is both personal and meaningful to her, on at Verve Cafe. But what the viewer...
This week Build-a-band Every Thursday night at Smash Palace, from 7-11pm. Motivate your muso mates or just turn up — everything’s set up and ready to go. Let’s jam! Free entry. Fusion Bellydance Every Thursday at 5.45pm. Join vibrant and fun...
Gisborne progressive rock band UNI-FI celebrates 10 years with a special show this Friday at Smash Palace. The group is made up of Cory Garrett (lead vocals), Michael Shanks (guitar), Gana Goldsmith (bass guitar — vocals), and Genesis Burgess...
Beyoncé ruled the US box office last weekend. Her concert picture, Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé, opened in first place with $21 million in North American ticket sales, according to estimates from AMC Theatres on Sunday. The post-Thanksgiving...
Odeon Multiplex The Boy and the Heron (dubbed) Critically acclaimed anime from director Hayao Miyazaki, with the voice talents of Christian Bale, Dave Bautista and Willem Dafoe. Journey to Bethlehem A retelling of the Christmas story with music...
‘We medalled in every race we entered’.
Tairāwhiti schools were visited by Basketball New Zealand’s Hoops in Schools initiative on Tuesday. Awapuni, Ormond, Matawai and Riverdale each received hoops and balls from New Zealand Tall Blacks and Tall Ferns internationals Ethan Rusbatch and...
Electrinet Park You can forgive Park staff, committee and club members for looking a little anxious when it starts to rain. There’s a general feeling of “oh no, not again” when the skies open up . . . as they did yet again this week, resulting...
Gisborne’s Tessa McDonald powered to victory as Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay racked up a second team win at the women’s national interprovincial yesterday. McDonald, at No. 2 in the HBPB side, cruised to a 6 and 4 defeat of Shardae Bulkely in a 3-2...
Cricket can be a hard old life, even for the young. No captain could have worked harder to position his team to win the Junior Hardball T20 final than the Ngatapa Kings’ Archie Gillies, before a tide-turning over from Jack Williams of the High...
Draw for Tairāwhiti senior and junior softball, all games at Waikirikiri Park on Saturday — Senior Division, 12.30pm: D2, Moana Toa v Māori Smurfs; D3, Expendables v More or Less. Emerging Sox Intermediate Softball (Years 7 and 8), 11am: D1...
A steady decline in maths, reading and science ability among New Zealand 15-year-olds since 2009 continues in the latest three-yearly report by the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa), including a 15-point fall in maths —...
by Tim Wilson Maxim Institute executive director Tim Wilson The morning before details of the coalition between National, ACT and New Zealand First were finally announced, Westpac Bank released a report on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in business...
I am acutely aware that aside from being human I am part of the universe and, like everything else, I consist of matter that was created in the universe after the Big Bang. I am sure that when my life is finished the compounds of my body will...