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Pay hikes at Eastland Group defended: boosted by incentives, redundancies

Paying Eastland Group’s top earner $1.15 million last year despite making a $6m normalised operating loss was a bone of contention at the company’s owner’s annual public meeting on Thursday. The energy generation business and Gisborne port and...

Gisborne Club Darts Association results

INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS 180s: T Irwin (5), J White (Brezz’n Gold); T Kaio (Done n Dusted); P Waihape (Spartans); H Brown, A Charlie (Stallions); A Kaiwai, A Taukamo-Pohio (Vikings); Q Stevens (Rebels); M Evans, C Andrews (Spandangles); J Budd...

Sue wins snooker singles crown close to her heart

Uncle would have been proud. Sue Hart made the trip from Tauranga to Gisborne for the 20th anniversary Burnie Hart Memorial handicap singles a fittingly winning one on Sunday. Hart, the niece of the late Burnie Hart, won all her matches on the...

National/Act will sell to highest bidder

I’m really concerned that if we get a National/Act government we will end up being owned by multinational corporates and be under the thumb of foreign governments. Act has cited aims to let public-private partnerships loose in the public health...

Judicial tinkering policy outrageous, impractical

Sad to see Act suggesting impractical fettering of our justice system by controlling the parameters that bind judges in sentencing. The “back story” of offenders will always be relevant to sentencing, regardless of their ethnicity. The crime...

Being overweight on geothermal will bite Eastland Group

Three tries at standing for council and I haven’t come very far. I did, however, get in the final word at the question time part of the Trust Tairawhiti AGM at the Waikanae surf club last night. Hallelujah LOL. I followed on from an earlier...

Nats’ election campaign on the wrong track

Re: National ready to get to work — Luxon, August 8 story. The National Party campaign “Back on Track” is on the “wrong track”! They have “tunnel vision” with their transport policy focusing only on investment in roads. Instead, their...

Slimmer EGL on generation path

The Trust Tairāwhiti annual meeting on Thursday night was focused even more than usual on issues related to Eastland Group Ltd (EGL), the trust’s dominant asset which it owns on behalf of all of us in Tairāwhiti. It raises again the question of...

Top player honour to Bay’s Nepia

Poverty Bay finished the Hurricanes Heartland Under-20 series winless but provided one of the individual highlights. Prop Hayze Nepia was named player of the series which finished with a doubleheader weekend in Bulls. Nepia and Poverty Bay teammates...

Hoping for a nuclear weapons-free world

Bob Hughes I write this on Sunday, August 6 — Hiroshima Peace Day — the anniversary of the horrific nuclear attack on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945. This and the atomic bombing of Nagasaki three days later are the only uses of nuclear...

Gun registry backed by majority: survey

Figures released this week by Gun Control NZ show that a large and broad-based majority of New Zealanders, 71 percent in total, support the establishment of a gun registry. Introduced in June this year, the registry has been strongly criticised by...

Pultron named exporter of year at ExportNZ Hawke's Bay awards night

Pultron Composites reaped the rewards of hard work at last night’s Hawke’s Bay ASB Exporter of the Year, walking away with several awards including the top gong. The Gisborne company was named ExportNZ Hawke’s Bay ASB Exporter of the Year and...

High praise for museum from councillors

“I can’t believe you get 45,000 visitors a year. That’s nearly a thousand a week.” Those comments from Gisborne district councillor Teddy Thompson were among many similarly positive comments from councillors as Tairāwhiti Museum director...

One-hander a masterful piece of theatre

From the opening scene of Michael James Manaia, it is clear the audience is in for a wild ride. Time to strap ourselves in. The one-man play opens tonight at Unity Theatre, with Lawrence Mulligan in the title role. Here he is, recounting his trip to...

Tauira from Te Kura o Manutuke do the mahi to connect to their whenua

Being part of the mahi (work) in the natural environment (taiao) shows young tauira (students) the job possibilities they could be involved in. Te Ngahuru Tikotikoiere team from Rongowhakaata Iwi Trust took a class from Te Kura o Manutuke to one of...

Vax event at the station

Turanga Health kaimahi (staff) will host another vaccination drive-through service at Te Wai-o-Hiharore (the railway station) on Sunday. Vaccinations will be provided to the public in the comfort of their own waka amid a friendly atmosphere with...

Tent city preview for Conservation Week

Gisborne residents are invited to a free sausage sizzle and information event on Sunday, to prepare for Conservation Week, which runs from Monday August 14 to Sunday August 20. Conservation groups from across the region will set up a “tent city”...

Fire destroys unoccupied house near Te Araroa

A home alongside State Highway 35 north of Te Araroa was destroyed in a blaze in the early hours of Wednesday morning. The cause remains under investigation. Fire and Emergency New Zealand received the first 111 call about the fire in the unoccupied...