Latest from Gisborne

One-wicket thrillers to Horouta, OBR

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...

Right track for Māori health services . . .

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...

Erosion now is hand nearing midnight

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...

Live Day ‘a captivating journey through technological milestones’

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...

Euthanising dolphins ‘a welfare decision’

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...

Fine few days before rain comes Monday: MetService

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...

Faster weather, fire warnings only an app away

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...

East Cape bridge reopened

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...

Rental demand continues to outpace supply

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...

Gizzy Gig Guide

Build-a-Band Smash Palace every Thursday. Bring your friends along for a friendly jam session. Free, starts at 7pm. Karaoke Expect a fun evening as patrons belt out the tunes. Share your talent with friends at Breakers’ Jandal Bar every Friday...

Statham has more than a bee in his bonnet

Secret agents and murderous assassins seem to lurk in increasingly mundane places. Remember The Accountant with Ben Affleck? Or The Tax Collector with Shia LaBeouf? Or more recently, how about The Bricklayer with Adam Eckhardt? You probably don’t...

Gisborne Movie Guide

Odeon Multiplex The Iron Claw Fact-based story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who make history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s. Stars Zac Efron. The Color Purple Film adaptation of the stage...

Battle of the Bays

by John Sherratt English three-goaler Ollie Jones was named Player of the Tournament at Bushmere polo ground over the weekend, and had a hand in another prestigious award. Laura Gavin was awarded the Guy Kirkpatrick Memorial Trophy for horsemanship...

Big entry list for North Islands champs

The entry line-up for the North Island stock car championships at the Gisborne Speedway Club keeps getting bigger and bigger. The entry list as of yesterday is 1NZ Kyle Rowe, 3NZ Cody Lockett, 4B Courtney Hatton, 7G Shane Bunning, 7H Hamish Whyte...

Golf roundup

Electrinet Park Judy would have been impressed. But she also might have fired out a couple of “bloody burglars” barbs after the Gisborne Thistle AFC Golf Day produced some of the best scoring in its history on Sunday. Good weather, a short...

Rates rises outlined, and the challenges

The first full council meeting of the year is being held today, with councillors regathering — no doubt having received lots of helpful advice over the summer break — to consider the Three-Year Plan 2024-2027 draft estimates and branding as well...

Humans recklessly wiping out life

Bob Hughes Mother Earth and Aotearoa have a limited, fixed quantity of finite resources which don’t regenerate once they are used. Minerals and fossil fuels — coal, oil and gas — are finite resources that people of the future won’t have...

Follow-up to the Census

Re: Intrusion. Around 16,500 households took part in the 2023 post-enumeration survey. It was a follow-up to the last Census and is a standard procedure to measure the completeness of the count. It appears that your correspondent on 23rd January was...