Three hat-tricks, good. Four hat-tricks, better. My apologies to ALH Gisborne Thistle striker Jimmy Somerton. In my addled arrogance, I trusted my memory in its recall of two hat-tricks before last Saturday’s effort in a 5-3 loss to Palmerston...
Wainui Beach will be the place to be for knockout football action tomorrow. Wainui teams Demons and Sharks will have home advantage over Thistle and Gisborne United respectively in a Bailey Cup semifinal double-header at the beach ground off Wairere...
Eastland super veterans will be in Hamilton this weekend for the final round of the Badminton New Zealand inter-association super veterans’ Division 2 playoffs. Injuries have again affected the make-up of the team. They will play ties against...
The annual Sawyer Rosebowl Optional Fours tournament was held at Kahutia Bowling Club on Sunday. Ten teams played three rounds of games lasting eight ends or an hour, whichever came first. The winners of the Stonehaven Memorials-sponsored event were...
Six medals — three of them gold — were highlights of the Enterprise Swim Team’s efforts in the New Zealand Short Course Championships at the Hawke’s Bay Regional Aquatic Centre last month. Helena Huettemeyer, competing in the 15-year...
A damning review from a specially appointed panel will give rugby’s administrators plenty to think about. It says NZ Rugby lacks the leadership to solve the game’s complex issues, and that New Zealand rugby has too many professional players. It...
Blue Moons, Supermoons, Blood Moons — the New Zealand media has been infected with a pandemic of imported lunacy. Roger Handford It is another insidious cultural invasion, less obvious than Coca-Cola, but just as effective as that US-invented...
Having farmed through two El Nino droughts, I learned to heed advice early and not procrastinate, hoping. Unlike fire and floods, droughts develop and can be farmed, even in the low-rainfall front country. There are three elements to successfully...
It’s 250 days since a #newsroom expose on the National Party’s #BarbaraKuriger. Since then, media have mostly been silent and in the meagre one or two articles, have called her only an “embattled” MP. Even knowing about the misuse of her MP...
Re: Clive’s column on Wednesday. Tena pohehe tena! Translation: that’s a load of rubbish! Nga mihi Geraldine Oliver
Re: Pushing back on nonsense, August 29 letter. Nice one, Lara. I’ve been rolling my eyes back since the first one she wrote. About time someone called her out on the rubbish she writes. Eddie Rare
The training suction dredge Albatros has started a 12-day campaign clearing naturally accumulating sediments along the Eastland Port shipping channel, turning basin, Wharf 7 and Wharf 8. “So far the Albatros crew have worked in the Wharf 7 berth...
The daily limit for recreationally caught pāua will reduce to five of each pāua species per fisher to support the sustainability of stocks in the central and lower North Island, and that includes this region. The new rules take effect on September...
The fire that destroyed an old three-bedroom home on Putere Road at Raupunga south of Wairoa on Monday morning was caused by some sort of electrical fault. Two men living in the home were woken from their sleep by a passerby who saw the fire...
A sleep-deprived hitchhiker, high on methamphetamine, hurled large rocks at vehicles when drivers wouldn’t stop to give him a ride. Jade Smith, 35, smashed windows and dented doors in eight vehicles during an incident on State Highway 2, north of...
The annual St Andrew’s Parish Monster Garage Sale returns tomorrow, with plenty of bargains on offer. Setting up on Thursday, parishioner Marilyn Matthews said there would be something for everyone. “We’ve got lots of bargains, from furniture...
Gisborne has set a new weather record on reaching the end of the eighth month in what has been a bizarre and devastating year for weather. With no rain over the past few days, it means it has been the driest August on record for Gisborne, going back...
The dog attack slaughter of sheep has continued this week in the Patutahi area and the affected farmers have made a plea to the owner of the “ringleader” dog to surrender it in the hope the carnage can end. Seventeen fattening lambs were killed...
Burials have been back on in recent weeks in sections of the Taruheru Cemetery and the council hopes to soon be able to resume burials in other parts of the cemetery. High groundwater levels have disrupted interments at Taruheru since Cyclone...
Entries have been coming in steadily for the competition sections of the annual Poverty Bay A&P Spring Show in October and so far would be on a par with previous years, according to Show association general manager Erica McNeil. As of Wednesday...
The district council needs to do better, starting today. That was the blunt message from Te Poho o Rawiri Marae chairwoman Char Gibson as she voiced the adamant opposition of Ngāti Oneone to the granting of a lease of heritage reserve land to...
A group of Gisborne surfers led by Holly Quinn and Ricardo Christie will begin a fundraising drive this weekend to establish Kegged, in a move to create surf events that develop youth in the region and ignite a sense of community among surfers. The...
A Gisborne theatre group is looking for answers in an ongoing lease saga with the district council that has no clear end in sight.
The Year 5 and 6 students ran a 3000 metre course and the Year 3 and 4s ran a shorter course of 2000m
Hundreds of students from Gisborne’s Central School will take to the stage this week for the production of Back to the Movies — an all singing, all dancing extravaganza based on four movies chosen by the children. The school was divided into...
An exhibition of wearable art by Susan Holmes is now on at Tairāwhiti Museum featuring sculptural one-off showpiece garments made for the NZ World of Wearable Art. Award-winning Auckland fabric artist Susan Holmes established a broad repertoire of...
Electrinet Park Winning her 21st women’s senior club championship title was the second-best thing to happen to Karen Hay in the space of a few days. Becoming a grandmother for the first time well and truly outdid that. Hay beat Jo Kerr 7 and 6 in...
Comet Swim Club have geared up to start their training at the new Kiwa Pools complex and head coach Glenn Hamblyn said these were exciting times for the club and the district. This weekend marks the opening of the Kiwa Pools to the public. “It’s...
National has released what will likely be the key element of its election campaign — a tax policy designed to bring relief for the group it calls the “squeezed middle”, with other entitlements and tax reductions aimed at minimum-wage workers...
It is the unhappy lot of judges to be criticised for the sentences they impose. There is nothing wrong with that. Robert Fisher, KC New Zealand is an open, democratic society. Judges are ultimately answerable to the public. It is right that...
Aotearoa New Zealand’s first-ever security strategy document was unusually frank in its assessment of the geopolitical threats facing us. It went so far as to state that “an increasingly powerful China” was “pos(ing) challenges to existing...
Re: Paper boy remembers, August 26 article. What an interesting, well-written, enjoyable feature from Chris Taewa, retired paper boy. It made me think of in the past, prior to decimal currency, how the paper girls and boys used to call at our home...
Some people seem to have very short memories. Life isn’t perfect for too many but it’s a darned sight better than it ever was under a National and Act government. Do you remember that the minimum wage was only $15.75 an hour in 2017? It’s now...