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Support needed even more

Congratulations Tairāwhiti Alzheimers on your 50th birthday. Those before you and those now have given so much to many of our most vulnerable people in our society. It is frightening to see the growth in this very sad disease and to know it is not...

Cost-cutting consequences

The reason Healthcare New Zealand took over the support worker contract from CCS, who had ably run it for 30 years in Tairāwhiti, was because they would be “cutting costs”. HCNZ’s latest cost-cutting onslaught has been to shorten support...

Covid rears its head again

Extremely bad luck for any politician to “go down” with Covid so close to an election, and more so for a prime minister wishing to lead the government again after that election. In my humble opinion, while it would not have completely solved our...

Flying a kite bridge . . .

A waka suspended in the air? Incongruous and unrelated to its form or function. Why not build the bridge to look like a kite? What a shame to have lost the observatory. Wayne Rickard

Bay of Plenty ride wave of wins

Bay of Plenty steamrolled their opponents at the National Scholastic Surfing Championships in Gisborne last week, claiming their first victory in six years. They secured two titles on the final day, Friday, with 10 of the 12 team members featuring...

Bridge results

MONDAY, September 25 – Sean Shivnan Pharmacy Championship Pairs 8 (Howell movement) Pamela Clay, Mark Fleming 62.92 Vicki Nickerson, Frank Roach 62.38 Helen Kerisome, Pippa Williams 57.14 Anne Roberts, Raewynne Cook 57.14 Diana Styche, Joy Marden...

The debate for Ikaroa-Rāwhiti

Hawke’s Bay Today’s candidate evening for Ikaroa-Rāwhiti was held at Karamū High School in Hastings. Editor Chris Hyde has the run down . . . Why candidates want to be MP Meka Whaitiri: Kia ora whānau, thank you for coming out tonight. I love...

Tairāwhiti ‘GP sector still in crisis’: Aitcheson

Tairāwhiti GP Fergus Bruce Aitcheson says general practice is in the worse state he has ever seen. The Three Rivers managing partner and specialist GP recently appeared on Newshub as one of several medical specialists who said his sector was in...

Breathing new life into kākahu

Restoring the life of kākahu (Māori garments) cared for by Tairāwhiti Museum is a part of the new exhibition opening on Sunday. Tairāwhiti Museum kaitieiki Māori have organised an exhibition called He Kākahu Rerehua The Uplifting Wind, that...

Big question now is council response

The challenges of the past year that led to Gisborne Holdings Ltd’s board deciding they could not pay GHL’s council owner $2.5 million of anticipated income also seem to have helped unify their thinking. The directors didn’t appear to be...

GDC regulatory system remains broken

John Kape Council had planned to discharge treated sewage on to Midway beach during the school holidays. This would have forced probable cancellation of a National Junior Surf competition planned for the pipe surfbreak. There are a number of...

Not so old, for a press

It used to be that newspaper presses were built like battleships and lasted forever. They were reminders of an age gone by when they were huge mechanical monsters, served by ink- and oil-smeared men in overalls. I know all things change, as is the...

Surf City women’s F Grade take away national superchamps title

SQUASH Surf City Squash Club achieved one championship, two runners-up spots and two top-four placings in the national superchamps week held around the country. The women’s F Grade team won their tournament in New Plymouth, beating Geyser City...

Rub of the green impacts season

Gisborne Thistle had the second-best scoring record in Central Football’s Federation League, and the worst defensive record. Their goals for couldn’t keep pace with their goals against and so they finished second-last in a five-team competition...

ON THE MATS

Andrew Rickard, son Adam and daughter Rachael have won the Poverty Bay-East Coast Indoor Bowls Centre Closing Trios in a one-sided final. They beat Malcolm Trowell, Lois Lamont and Mike Foster 11-5. After four ends of nine, the Rickards were in...

McKenzie Shield won by Gis Bowling Club

The advantages of an artificial green were evident again when play in the McKenzie Shield Open Mixed Triples was able to go ahead at Poverty Bay Bowling Club on a sunny day after heavy overnight rain. Three games of 90 minutes were played in the...

Gisborne Club Darts Association results

Tuesday night league INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS 180s: A Taukamo-Pohio 2 (2NZEF TAO Vikings); K Arahanga 2 (RSA Stallions); I Eyles (RSA Gunz); J Ahuriri, T Ratapu (2NZEF TAO Spartans); H Woollett (Brezz’n Gold); R Leach (RSA Outlaws); M Evans (RS...

Apprentices earning their stripes in Wairoa

by Kate Green, RNZ Apprentice builders in Wairoa are earning their qualifications by repairing flood-damaged homes. After homes north of the river were inundated by metre-high flooding during Cyclone Gabrielle, locals looking for work found it in...