Many developing countries are effectively “owned” by China through its investment in their infrastructure. Now we have a political party wanting China to finance the extending and much-needed maintenance of our roadways. China already calls the...
Re: A local nurse languishing, August 2 letter. If your partner is “languishing on the couch” because she doesn’t want to wear a mask or get vaccinated, perhaps she could volunteer elsewhere. If you want to be a police officer, you have to...
Jared Martin has a high basketball IQ. And the man whose Tauranga Boys’ College crew were pushed to the brink by Gisborne Boys’ High School on Wednesday morning knows just how close run a thing the game between the teams was. TBC came from...
A win tomorrow would lift Gisborne Thistle off the bottom of football’s Central Federation League table, but it won’t be easy. They play Taradale — two points above them in fourth place in the five-team competition — at Childers Road Reserve...
Poverty Bay continue their Heartland Championship preparation with a hit-out against Hawke’s Bay Saracens in Napier tomorrow. The Civil Project Solutions Poverty Bay Wekas are looking to build on last weekend’s 61-31 win over Eastern Bay of...
Gisborne Tairāwhiti Rugby League is holding the annual Nate Miller Tournament at Barry Park tomorrow. The memorial event was to be played at Paddy’s Park in Patutahi but the ground was closed due to surface water. Six teams have registered —...
The surge towards the Poverty Bay club hockey playoffs heats up this weekend with the top men’s and women’s teams facing vital games. Prem 1 women’s sides GMC Green and YMP A take the Hain Farming Turf at Harry Barker Reserve at 6pm tonight in...
A Waikohu second-half comeback shattered Gisborne Girls’ High Senior A’s top four hopes in Premier Grade netball in the YMCA on Wednesday. In a battle royal, Claydens Waikohu (1) fought back from seven goals down to win 53-49 in a game the...
A World Cup secret has finally been revealed much to the relief of Tatapouri Marist Thistle goalkeeper Eden Schollum, who has been tightlipped about a huge surprise for her teammates since May. Schollum received an email about becoming part of an...
The annual J and T Hickey charity sheep dog trial got under way yesterday morning at the Riding Club for the Disabled arena at the Showgrounds, with some good runs during the day. The organisers were hoping to get 60 of the total 120 entries through...
A low-loader truck used for carting heavy machinery caught fire near the Bell Road saleyards at Matawhero early yesterday morning and an electrical wiring fault has been put down as the cause. Fire and Emergency NZ responded to a 111 call about the...
Kinder weather for the East Coast is forecast, after this week’s chilling blast from the Antarctic. MetService says the next few days should be calmer, but not much warmer, with daytime temperatures around the 14C to 16C range, and a return to...
The Government response to the Ministerial Inquiry into Land Use is toothless and is a total disappointment, says Mana Taiao Tairāwhiti co-lead Manu Caddie. “Funding one adviser and a facilitator to the region seems like a cynical slap in the...
Studying Māori Visual Arts has been a “beautiful journey” for Bridy Rihari-Lundon (Ngāpuhi, Waikato Tainui), this year’s valedictorian for the Tairāwhiti campus of EIT|Te Pūkenga. Bridy is doing her Master of Māori Visual Arts degree at...
Associate Minister of Health Peeni Henare has welcomed a report into the progress of Te Aka Whai Ora, the Māori Health Authority, published yesterday. “The Minister of Health and I wanted to better understand the early progress Te Aka Whai Or...
Eastland Wood Council Te Kaunihera Pororakau o Te Tairāwhiti, in conjunction with member forestry companies, has welcomed the Government’s response to the Ministerial Inquiry into Land Use following this summer’s devastating cyclones. “It is...
The Government yesterday announced the first steps in responding to recommendations from the Ministerial Inquiry into Land Use here, leaving one local iwi leader to claim none of their key recommendations had been listened to. “I cannot support...
Working to enhance the size of the roe from malnourished kina while also supporting the restoration of kelp forests and marine ecosystems is the goal of a new project involving Ngāti Porou fisheries. The 18-month Kinanomics project, led by natural...
The Government announcement in response to a damning East Coast land- use inquiry has received a fiery reception from pockets of the Tairāwhiti community.
The Government is backing a comprehensive package of action around land use in Tairāwhiti/Gisborne and Wairoa, Environment Minister David Parker and Forestry Minister Peeni Henare announced today..
Some Saturdays are all smiles and sunshine. And in the 17-year history of Central Hawke’s Bay Rugby and Sports Club, no event — or result — has been bigger than the red-and-whites’ win against Enterprise Cars Ngāti Porou East Coast Kaupoi...
Tūranga Tāne side were up against it when they took on an experienced and powerful Pacific Island Representative selection in Whakatāne on Saturday. The Pasifika squad was made up of players from Counties Manukau, Auckland and North Harbour who...
POVERTY BAY Richard Owen knows pressure. Seventy games and 470 points for the Poverty Bay representative rugby team between 1983 and 1990 featured plenty of bottle-testing moments. But it was tension on a different playing field he and partner John...
Kings don’t last long at Tolaga Bay. In the 52-year history of the King of the Coast men’s open, only a select group of champions have remained on the throne the following year. William Brown became one of them last weekend as he staved off...
News this week that Gisborne Holdings Ltd is not able to pay a $2.5m dividend it had previously declared for owner Gisborne District Council — following its $4.1m sale of most of the former St Mary’s site in Childers Road — was telegraphed in...
Gwynne Dyer If you are a democratically elected leader in one of Africa’s Sahel countries and you suspect the army is plotting to overthrow you, what’s the best counter-measure? Should you: A) appoint the army’s senior officers as ambassadors...
Re: Testing year but progress noted, July 29 story. Matt Todd notes “that it has been a tough year for everyone in Tairāwhiti and Eastland Group is no exception”. Although, it could be said that the employees of Eastland Group are an exception...
The National Party was formed in 1935 by conservative businessmen and farmers. For them, business comes first, then farmers. People come next. In this regard, they are dangerous. Left-wing parties are the same. Call me naive, unrealistic or any...
Four-term MP Ian McKelvie says he senses an electorate looking positively at National in election year. The Rangitikei MP was in Gisborne this week with the party’s East Coast candidate Dana Kirkpatrick, with both saying the party would work hard...
A woman’s “terrifying” experience renting a house in Tamarau has ended with her landlord being ordered to pay her damages for harassment, verbal abuse, and late filing of her bond. The woman told the Tenancy Tribunal she felt unsafe and...
WITH the government expected to update progress on implementing recommendations from the Ministerial Inquiry into Land Use in Tairāwhiti and Wairoa, forestry industry bodies say they have already implemented “a suite of sector-led measures” as...
The action started in the annual J and T Hickey Charity Sheep dog trial this morning, held as usual in the Riding Cub for the Disabled complex at the Showgrounds Park. The 120 runs will be divided up today and tomorrow, ahead of a final run-off on...
Thompson’s Horticulture from Gisborne and Ōpōtiki had a great day at the annual Silver Secateurs grapevine pruning competition at the Ashwood Estate vineyards at Makaraka on Monday. The company’s pruners came away with a stack of prizes. They...
Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier is calling on the government and local councils to empower iwi on the back of a visit to cyclone-hit areas. Boshier travelled to Tairāwhiti and Hawke’s Bay this week to meet with affected communities who are still...