The distinctive A-frame Mihaia Anglican Church at Tolaga Bay is to be demolished to make way for a new church. It is the second church on the site and has lasted less than half the time of its predecessor. The first Anglican church there opened in...
Sophie Cairns is heading to Papua New Guinea tomorrow with a team of five others to set up two school libraries and fill them with books they have collected over the past year. She is part of a charity called From Me which collects donations of...
Gisborne Hospital senior doctors went on another two-hour strike yesterday as they continue to campaign for wage increases that reflect the cost of living. Thousands of senior doctors and dentists who work at Te Whatu Ora public hospitals and health...
A sausage sizzle and memorial motorcycle ride will take place on Saturday, to raise money for charity and mark Motorbike Awareness Month. The Gisborne Road Pirates Social Motorcycle Club (RPSMC) annual Hayden Miller Memorial Charity Run will leave...
Learning te reo Māori helps bring more of an understanding about the culture and people it is from. This is what te reo Māori student Amanda Clarke, 47, feels about learning the language of Aotearoa New Zealand. As a full-time worker, with family...
Residents of a remote East Coast beach community have been forced to purchase additional vehicles to reach town after a part of their road slid down a cliff after a June storm.
With the arrival of koanga (spring), Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival is excited that the return of Te Ara i Whiti — The Light Trail will once again provide the warmth, connection and visual beauty that is synonymous with the stunning annual, outdoor...
Ozi Ozaa is a groundbreaking fusion band with a very distinct African twist. The band weaves genres as disparate as traditional Ghanaian folk songs with African pop genres such as highlife, as well as funk, soul, Latin and jazz. It is fronted by...
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. Creedence Clearwater Revival Tribute Show — Born on the Bayou...
A literacy organisation is looking for aspiring writers, poets or booklovers from Tairāwhiti to participate in writing a novel with other people from around the world. They are hoping Gisborne people, young or old, who have a passion for literature...
Inspired by the beloved children’s story The Kuia and the Spider by Patricia Grace, Taki Rua Productions is excited to present Te Kuia me te Pūngāwerewere in a highly engaging, 25-minute piece of theatre in te reo Māori specially for...
This Week's Film Guide Odeon Multiplex A Haunting in Venice Hercule Poirot, now retired, must solve the murder of a guest at a seance he attended. Based on the 1969 Agatha Christie novel Hallowe’en Party. Co-produced and directed by Kenneth...
Kenneth Branagh indulges in the kind of macabre theatricality that only a crumbling Venetian palazzo on a stormy Halloween night can provide in A Haunting in Venice. Movie-goers probably long ago made up their mind one way or another about...
There is no shortage of creative songwriting talent coming out of Gisborne Girls’ High School this year with six of its Year 13 students being chosen as finalists in the Play It Strange song writing competition. This makes them first equal in the...
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Gisborne surfer Saffi Vette gave an inspiring talk to Makaraka School students this week about the peaks and troughs of life and the need to keep trying.
Gisborne’s Renee Holmes has predictably been named in the 30-strong Black Ferns squad for their final test match of the O’Reilly Cup and the inagural WXV1 tournament on home soil. Fullback Holmes will add to her 23 tests in a squad featuring...
Tūranga Wahine are back on the winning trail, thanks to a 31-27 victory over Ngati Porou East Coast Hamoterangi in Week 4 of the inaugural North Island Women’s Heartland Competition on Saturday. The close contest was part of a tripleheader...
The 88th edition of the Poverty Bay Men’s Open tees off next week minus the reigning champion but with a bold new course layout. The order of sequence of holes is to be temporarily changed over the duration of the district’s oldest (first held...
Waikanae Surf Life Saving Club head coach Cory Hutchings will divide his time between the Gisborne club and his new role as lead sports adviser at Omanu Beach SLSC in the Bay of Plenty this summer. The Omanu club’s coach decided to move on and...
Poverty Bay Poverty Bay Bowling Club members were delighted to be able to hold an opening day tournament on their recently laid Field Turf Green on Saturday. The season was opened by the club president Lesley Seymour, who thanked those who...
Monday, September 4 – Ben White (Ray White) Pairs 1 North/South East/West John Hudson, Robyn Cheyne 61.81 Carolyn McMurray, Helen Kerisome 59.13 Eileen Lee, Joy Marden 57.99 Vicki Nickerson, Frank Roach 57.15 Bette Parker, Ann McCombe 57.99...
As bad as probably expected, but better than some thought — that would sum up Treasury’s Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Update released yesterday afternoon. Pundits have been warning that Prefu, as it has become known, would show a gloomy...
Natasha Baulis, Maxim Institute researcher Reading a recent article by Stuff, I was struck once again by a strong sense of frustration at their “How does this story make you feel?” survey. Frustration, however, was not one of the six options...
Manu Caddie Re: Launch pad disruption, Sept 12 story. Both Rocket Lab and government officials continue to obfuscate the issues. 1. Weapons targeting systems are weapons, despite what Rocket Lab might want to call them. A technology used to identify...
David Seymour has always come across as the affable uncle at a family gathering — jovial, witty and otherwise harmless. As the election nears and he senses real power just beyond his grasp, he has now decided to unleash the beast within. Annoyed...
I had the privilege of watching the Sunday matinee of Jersey Boys, and WOW! I got a last-minute ticket jumping in with friends, as I am not from Gisborne and only here for a week. To say I was absolutely blown away by the talent is an...
Tree Growers Tairāwhiti — formerly known as The East Coast Farm Forestry Association — has two fieldays planned, one at Awapapa Station and the other at the Eastwoodhill Arboretum and Rere. On Wednesday, September 20 Awapapa Station at Hangaro...
The Rapid Relief Team (RRT)will head to Wairoa on October 4 to support flood-affected farmers there by bringing them together for a day out and to supply them with donations of fencing packs. “Don’t let this opportunity pass you by — come and...
The start to the peak of the lambing season in the district has arrived and farmers have welcomed the drier, sunnier weather. “We’re in a pretty positive weather patch at the moment, good for the farmers and their new arrivals,” said AgFirst...
Te Whatu Ora Tairāwhiti (formerly Tairāwhiti District Health Board) breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights for inadequate care provided to an elderly man, the Health and Disabilities Commissioner has ruled. The...
A major fire extensively damaged an implement shed and an attached sleepout on an orchard in Pilmer Road at Makauri in the early hours of yesterday morning. Fire and Emergency NZ responded with six appliances, including three water tankers from the...
Police have a Serious Crash Inquiry underway after a metal truck left State Highway 35 south of Te Araroa on Monday afternoon, and the driver was killed. The crash was reported to police at around 1.45pm that afternoon. The single vehicle incident...
A mentally unwell man was almost hit by a logging truck as he wandered about the roadway of SH2 at Makaraka. Several members of the public saw the incident at about 6pm on December 7 last year, and phoned police. Two officers who went to the scene...