The emergency sewer valve near the Gladstone Road bridge was closed at 1pm yesterday afternoon and the council said all the discharge of wastewater had stopped. The valve was opened during the recent heavy rain due to overload in the wastewater...
Tairāwhiti Museum continued with the creative school holiday programmes this week with artistic workshops. Inspiration came from the exhibitions showing at the museum. The workshops were “really popular”, said museum director Eloise Wallace...
Up to 300 motorcyclists will be out on State Highway 35 tomorrow taking part in what they call ‘The Poker Run”. Some of the bikers belong to the Highway 35 Motorcycle Club, which has about 25 members, from Potaka at the top of East Cape down to...
CREATING a safe space for men who are wanting to change was the goal of a three-day hui in Tokomaru Bay organised by Tauawhi Men’s Centre. The “call to men” hui was organised by Papa Rau (Ralph Walker) after having a kōrero with his close...
Gisborne has broken yet another weather record, this time for the wettest year. Continuous rainfall records started at Gisborne harbour in 1878, and then MetService started its official record-keeping at Darton Field airport in 1937. From these two...
Frustration grows in the communities affected by the ongoing closure of Tiniroto Road at the Hangaroa Bluffs, and now residents have been told it could be between two and five years before a solution is found. Residents have told the Herald that...
Tairāwhiti Civil Defence is encouraging the community to register for the annual ShakeOut earthquake and tsunami preparedness exercise on October 19. “Register now,” is the call from Civil Defence Emergency Management. New Zealand ShakeOut is...
Celebrating the Tairāwhiti Alzheimers 50th birthday last week were Lynn Omer, Janet Willson, Marita Chisholm, Judy Ball, Tracy Robinson, Radar McGuinness and Rae McGuinness. It was also World Alzheimers Day and manager Tracy Robinson said, “We...
Poverty Bay have their toughest game of the season when they take on undefeated South Canterbury at Paddy’s Park, Patutahi, tomorrow. And unless things go their way, it could also be their last game of the year. The final round-robin matches of...
The Eagles Golfing Society of Gisborne Charity Golf Tournament is at the Poverty Bay course on Sunday. There is a two-tee start from 9am to 10.45am. Format is gross, net and stableford in men’s and women’s divisions; also a 9-hole section and...
The must-win game of the Ngāti Porou East Coast Kaupoi Sky Blues’ season is upon them. NPEC travel to Rugby Park, Waihi, to play the Thames Valley Swamp Foxes at 2pm tomorrow. The fourth-placed Coast — like Thames Valley and Whanganui — have...
Gisborne Country Music Club had another outstanding year at the New Zealand Country Music Awards, bringing home several top prizes. “We are very proud of everyone in the club who took part in the competition,” said Gisborne Country Music Club...
by Renae Lolohea A friendship that began at Gisborne Boys’ High School over two decades ago between Reihana Wyllie and Luke Bradley has opened the boarding gates for a group of Gisborne Boys’ High School students. A contingent of 30 students and...
Poverty Bay The top 10 of the Emerre and Hathaway Poverty Bay Men’s Open . . . 10 — Fly like an eagle: It’s just not a PB Open without Marcel Campbell doing something outrageous. This time the pizzeria owner nearly holed his drive on the par-4...
Barry Memorial Croquet Club members played a golf croquet teams tournament with a difference. Entrants were divided into two teams of eight, selected by captains Rob Hayes and John Wilson. Players competed in five rounds of either doubles or singles...
The council’s commercial arm Gisborne Holdings Ltd is set to draw a more vocal crowd than usual to its annual meeting tonight after making clear that a potential sale of its dominant asset, Tauwhareparae Farms, is on the table and it wants to hear...
Gwynne Dyer It’s nothing like the great breakthroughs of the mid-20th century wars, when combined air and ground forces would tear a hole in the enemy line, the tanks would pour through, and the front would roll back several hundred kilometres...
The front page of Tuesday’s paper so filled me with shock that I didn’t want to read the accompanying information. Tell me, how can a dog that is microchipped, registered etc be taken by a council staff member and mistakenly put down? It belies...
Was it the National Party or RNZ news that chose the wrong word, in admitting New Zealand First as a “possible” coalition partner, when history has proved it to be, when in coalition, quite an impossible partner? “Potential” would be better...
The Waiapu River is recognised as one of the North Island’s largest braided rivers, and is of great cultural and spiritual significance to Ngāti Porou. At approximately 130 kilometres long it winds through Ngāti Porou whenua where it passes by...
A reunion of former freezing workers at the Gisborne Refrigerating Company is planned for November 25. All ex-freezing workers who were there from 1948 to 1994, and their families, are invited. The man organising the reunion, Doug Symes, said they...
A new holiday programme featuring theatre, music and circus arts was a hit with the 40 children who took part this week. Chamber Music New Zealand and the Gisborne International Music Competition put on a three-day programme packed with discovery...
The fire that extensively damaged a residence in De Lautour Road in Kaiti on Tuesday morning was most likely caused by clothing and bedding left too close to a heater. The woman living there suffered smoke inhalation — described as minor by...
Sunday, October 1, is arguably the most important day of the year for a trout angler as it marks the start of the new trout fishing season here. The Rotorua region offers some of the best lake and stream fishing in the country and the season...
The Z Energy service station on Gladstone Road is closed for a major refurbishment. “It’s like the site is getting a birthday, a new kit,” said Hamish Waddington, Z Energy retail manager for the East Coast region. Petrol pumps are being...
The board of Trust Tairāwhiti has appointed Doug Jones as the organisation’s new chief executive. Trust chairman John Clarke said after an extensive recruitment process, trustees were thrilled to have Mr Jones join the trust. He starts on...
Rocket Lab’s recent mission failure from Māhia looks to have cost the company millions of dollars. Nasdaq-listed Rocket Lab yesterday issued an adjustment to its expected third quarter 2023 financial outlook, previously provided on August 8...
Max Phillips competing in the under 18 boys section on Wednesday, Day 3 of the five-day National Scholastic Surfing Championships at Makorori Beach. Gisborne was placed seventh in the team standings after Tuesday’s second day of competition, with...
Before the most recent rain over the past three days, almost all of Taruheru Cemetery had been reopened again for burials, to the relief of grieving families. Burials were severely disrupted for periods in the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle because of...
The $500,000 Lotto win struck here in last Saturday night’s draw had not been claimed as of yesterday afternoon. A lucky Gisborne Lotto player shared the First Division prize with a player from Christchurch, each set to pocket half-a-million...
Housing Minister Megan Woods describes the near completion of 31 Kāinga Ora houses in Worsley Street-Matthews Road, Kaiti, as an “absolute game changer”. The new houses indicated the Government’s commitment to public housing, the minister...
The Gisborne area took a a heavy one-two punch from the the rain, with another deluge forcing evacuations at Te Karaka on Tuesday night. The same low pressure system that brought torrential downpours to the top of the district over the weekend, gave...
The power of Māori and Pasifika literature roars into theatrical life as the much anticipated and highly acclaimed UPU comes to Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival as part of the RĀ season line-up. UPU means word, and in this stunning performance, the...
The Gisborne Printmakers group is hosting an exhibition called The Small Print by The Print Council of Aotearoa New Zealand (PCANZ) in Lysnar House Studios this weekend. As well as the exhibition the public can take in the atmosphere of the group at...