Clive Bibby Immediately following the end of World War 2, British voters made a huge call about the future direction of their country. On the one hand they had the option of returning the Conservative PM Winston Churchill — arguably the most...
On Friday, The Gisborne Herald ran a piece with the tagline: RNZ’s First Up reporter Leonard Powell went on a road trip from Whakatāne around the East Cape to test the tone of the East Coast’s towns. Mr Powell stopped at exactly how many towns?...
People can expect “full fire” when indie-rock trio KITA comes to Smash Palace to play their Love Lives Here Tour next month. Singer and guitarist Nikita Tu-Bryant can’t wait to get back to Te Tairāwhiti which holds a special place in her...
Former long-time Gisborne resident Vic Furlan has laughed, cried and shaken his head in wonder at what life has thrown at him over his 86 years. He is now the subject of New Zealand writer Graeme Wilson’s first book, VICTORY: The Vic Furlan Story...
Wrights Wines is hosting a Community Organic Day at their vineyard in Manutuke on Sunday, as part of their Organic Wine Week celebrations. There will be a chance to get your hands dirty planting flax at the vineyard followed by the creation of...
The Shepherdess Muster is coming back to Te Tairāwhiti, from February 16-18, 2024. The immersive festival will see a full programme of creatives, speakers and artists from around Aotearoa descend on the tiny village of Motu — an hour from...
Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival kicks off at the end of September with stage production UPU coming to the War Memorial Theatre on October 6 and 7. The world of Oceania is not small. From the energetic volcanoes of O’ahu to the southern reaches of...
This Week ■ Karaoke Friday September 22 at Breakers’ Jandal Bar. ■ Jam Solo - Mike Pomana Friday September 22. Gisborne-Tairawhiti RSA. ■ UNI-FI, Talismer and Afterlight Friday September 22, Smash Palace. Tauranga bands Afterlight and...
Dome Cinema ■ The Innocent Comedy crime film in which a prison theatre teacher marries an inmate in a union that is not well received by the teacher’s adult son, who is suspicious of his stepfather’s intentions. In French, with subtitles. ■...
Get close . . . that was the intention of all who stood on the par-3 sixth tee during the Emerre and Hathaway Poverty Bay Women’s Open held on the Awapuni Links course this week. Anne Witters and Poverty Bay clubmate Lynne Holmberg watch the...
Tairāwhiti paddlers showed they were world class when they won gold and silver medals at the waka ama long-distance world championships in Samoa. The Aotearoa New Zealand crew of Hinekahukura Brooking, Marnie Toloa, Kaiarahi Brooking-Haapu...
Gisborne Speedway Club has a new man at the helm in president Sam Hughes who is looking forward to keeping the club moving in one direction . . . forward. The 36-year-old, believed to be the youngest president in the club’s history, replaces Clyde...
A pre-Freyberg Masters reconnaisance could seriously threaten the local domination of the Poverty Bay Men’s Open. The Emerre and Hathaway-sponsored 2023 edition of a tournament that dates back to 1931 tees off tomorrow on the Awapuni Links course...
Turihaua Angus sold the lot in their Spring Sale yesterday with all 25 yearling bulls off to new homes, and all five of the rising two-year-olds sold as well. The yearlings averaged $7372, with a top dollar of $17,000 for Lot 12, purchased by Orere...
Petrol prices are adding to the cost of living in this country and have the potential to reach new records in the coming months. This will be a blow to the whole country especially in this district where the key economic drivers need long travel...
Trust in media, politicians and the courts, et cetera, has declined in many countries over the last few years. New Zealand has not been immune to this phenomenon. The Acumen Edelman Trust Barometer for 2023 shows that, for the first time, no major...
Political decisions, or indecisions, can have very serious consequences. Consider the present vaping epidemic, which has come into focus recently. The justification for vaping is that it provides assistance for smokers to quit. It is challenging...
Purely by chance, I came across two positive articles on X (formerly Twitter) about great Labour achievements. Neither appear to have been reported in our major newspapers, radio news or on our TV news. Both are in the health sector and will...
Under weak administrative monitoring of commercial afforestation mandatory requirements, and now the forecast El Nino threat, forest fire threat in our region is a realistic possibility of major concern. Commercial forestry staff in the past were...
A free concert is planned to mark International Day of Older Persons on October 1. Entertainment will be courtesy of Barleycorn, the Irish-influenced Gisborne band whose repertoire includes many Irish standards, as well as other easy-on-the ear...
The former service station in Whakato Road at Manutuke caught fire on Monday afternoon with the plume of smoke from the major fire visible from Gisborne. Fire and Emergency New Zealand sent crews from Gisborne and Manutuke to the blaze at around...
Civil Defence provided 468 households with welfare needs assessment after a State of Emergency was declared on June 22 because of heavy rain. Five days of heavy rain from June 18 left many areas flooded, particularly in Tolaga Bay and Te Karak...
Rescue helicopter pilot Mike Fitzgerald recalls flying to a tractor rollover up the East Coast, which required a hover-offload on a hillside. One of three pilots flying the Trust Tairāwhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter, he said it meant they could...
Two brothers who beat up and “bottled” people at a late-night drinking session have been sentenced to home detention, one of them narrowly avoiding a jail term. Canaan Parata, 30, and Uzziah Parata, 28, were sentenced together at Gisborne...
High on meth and suspicious that someone staying next door had gossiped about a personal matter, a man took to the person with a large knife. The victim was on a veranda having a cigarette when Brendan Lyver, 30, suddenly “appeared out of the...
Police and firefighters were called to Sponge Bay Road yesterday afternoon in response to what appeared to have been a deliberately lit grass fire alongside the road. The emergency services responded at around 1.10pm. Fire and Emergency NZ sent two...
Among post-cyclone events organised by Farming Women Tairāwhiti was a high country cuisine workshop held on Sunday by Philippa Cameron, author of two popular recipe books. Before her workshop at the Matawhero saleyards cookhouse, the Otematat...
Contractor Siteworx Civil has made a start on the latest clean-up of debris on the city beaches. Kaiti Beach was the first section to be worked on. Once the driftwood build-up was removed from there, workers were to move to The Cut at Waikanae and...
Surfers have been told to stay out of the water because Gisborne District Council plans to discharge treated wastewater on a section of Midway Beach’s The Pipe break next Wednesday. The council will also have to close The Pipe for four days from...
The 15 high school students involved in the latest CACTUS youth development programme in the city came through The Longest Day in fine style on Saturday. The students were mainly from Lytton High School, with a couple from other kura. The Longest...
Gisborne Boys’ High School’s annual cross-country at Sponge Bay once again proved a mixture of competition and fun for the hundreds of students who took part. And the fun factor, as usual, came from mud, glorious mud. Who knows what else lurks...
East Coast voters will have plenty of choice when general election voting opens on October 2 because a record 11 candidates will appear on the ballot paper.
Gisborne Boys’ High School student Salem Randall says “I can truly lose myself” when it comes to performing onstage. On Saturday, losing became winning as Salem took out the solo-duo category at the 35th national final of Smokerfreeockquest...
Rocket Lab will launch a record-equalling mission from Māhia later today. Scheduled for lift-off at 6.30pm, the mission — titled We Will Never Desert You — is for American space tech company Capella Space, a provider of commercial Synthetic...