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Loisels residents stranded and frustrated after June storm destroys access road

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.

Celebrating rejuvenation restoration and rebirth

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...

African rhythm coming to The Dome

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...

Gizzy Gig Guide What's On

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...

Shout-out for aspiring writers and poets

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...

Te Kuia me te Pūngāwerewere fun for preschoolers

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

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...

Branagh crafts a spooky Haunting in Venice

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...

Budding songwriters find success

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...

Pre-election forecast bleak but not all bad

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...

Beyond emotivism: how does this make you feel?

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...

Enabling race in space between superpowers

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...

Seymour ‘unleashes beast’

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...

Blown away by the talent

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...

Fieldays planned by ‘Tree Growers’

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...

Rapid Relief on the way for Wairoa farmers

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...

Optimistic start to lambing season

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...

Number of shortcomings noted in care of patient at Te Whatu Ora Tairāwhiti

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...