Captain Cook’s voyage observations of a transit of Venus from Tahiti and a transit of Mercury from the Coromandel Peninsula in 1769 will be the topic of discussion this evening. Professor Wayne Orchiston and his wife and research assistant Darunee...
Midway were named Club of the Year last night at the Surf Life Saving New Zealand Gisborne-Tairāwhiti Awards of Excellence for the 2022/23 season. The club operated out of containers next to their clubhouse site while their new complex was being...
A man caught driving an unroadworthy vehicle has tried to divorce himself from the charges with a sovereign citizen theory — one judges have repeatedly warned will never succeed. Benjamin Te Pairi, 68, was driving in April, 2021, when he was...
Te Kowhai Road residents in Whatatutu are again cut off, after a $200,000 causeway designed to replace a cyclone-damaged bridge washed away. Resident Chris Hannah said she had effectively been “imprisoned” in Gisborne city, while her husband was...
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins says he is firmly resolved to supporting the “resilient” people of Tairawhiti in flood recovery. He made a quick visit to the region on Thursday including meeting roading contractors near Tolaga Bay and visiting...
GISBORNE CLUB DARTS ASSOCIATION INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS 180s: T Ratapu (Spartans); H Eyles (Vikings); I Eyles (Gunz); J Collier (Roseland). Highest start (180): T Ratapu (Spartans). Highest finish (130): T Irwin (Brezz’n Gold). Team Results (P =...
SNOOKER An outside invasion was repelled by the home forces in another successful edition of the Gisborne Masters snooker tournament over King’s Birthday Weekend. On Cossie Club tables described by some as among the best in the country, local...
A pilot bioenergy plant alongside research into woody biomass market options and forestry slash recovery, transportation and processing methods are encouraging first steps for dealing with our slash problem by making productive use of it. Prime...
I was incredibly upset to hear the comments of Mike Hosking’s followers regarding the award of a damehood to our former Prime Minister, Jacinda Adern. Those National and Act supporters don’t have the guts to put their names in the public eye. It...
Norman Maclean’s inquisition of Iain Boyle’s recent letter was bemusing, to say the least! With the patience of a saint, Iain replied to all the questions. However, some of Norman’s assertions need further elucidation. He refers to the...
As the regional tourism industry advocate for tourism operators in Tairāwhiti Gisborne, we met last week for the first time since Cyclone Gabrielle. It was unanimous that a vote of thanks be conveyed to all those involved in the business recovery...
by Sisilia Teu Sisilia Teu Maxim Institute communications coordinator The internet has always been a “problem child” for society. It has completely transformed our lives for the better and, at the same time, has been a destructive troublemaker...
Proud Gizzy girls Renee Holmes and Kelsey Teneti will be out to torment Australia, Canada and the United States after being named in the Black Ferns squad for the Pacific Four Series, which starts in Brisbane at the end of the month. Women’s Rugby...
The Poverty Bay Premier club rugby top four are all but sorted but there is still plenty to play for as the competition moves towards the business end of the 2023 season. Round 2 resumes tomorrow after a two-week hiatus during which the top club...
Gisborne Girls’ High Senior A threw predictions out the window to stun 2022 Premier Grade runners-up Waikohu 55-46 in the YMCA on Wednesday night. In the battle of the newly promoted teams, YMP (2) proved too good for Farmlands Ngatapa — winning...
LAWNBOWLS Fourth-year bowler Karen Pinn received two major awards at the Bowls Gisborne-East Coast centre prize-giving at Kahutia Bowling Club. Pinn, a member of the Gisborne and Kahutia clubs, was named Most Improved Junior Women’s Player and...
Gisborne Thistle are running short of centrebacks but help is on its way in the form of a centre-forward. Tomorrow ALH Thistle play Palmerston North Marist under lights on the artificial surface of Arena Turf in Palmerston North. Last Saturday Chris...
This could be the best day of club rugby the coast has had so far. And while heavy rain warnings are the reality for tomorrow’s hardy sides and supporters, no true die-hard with an eye on the draw will miss Week 5 of H Blackbee Contractors Ngāti...
WEEK 6 of Poverty Bay senior club hockey should produce some tantalising contests. The feature match will probably be the men’s game between YMP A and Waituhi on the Hain Farming Turf at Harry Barker Reserve tomorrow afternoon. It starts at 3.30pm...
How big would it be for Gisborne Boys’ High School to beat Rotorua Boys’ High at the Rectory tomorrow? A victory to the Gisborne first 15 over reigning Super 8 rugby champions Raukura would be their first against Rotorua in a decade. They would...
Powerhouse Kat (Hubba) Kaiwai is used to digging in for her community and quickly mobilising her Ruatōria roading business to fix roads on the cyclone-ravaged East Coast. “You feel an obligation and a duty of service as part of the community to...
Gisborne supermarkets have escaped a huge rise in reported crime but only because of Cyclone Gabrielle, Those are the findings of a new report from supermarket cooperative Foodstuffs, which the National Party’s East Coast electorate candidate says...
Should wedding couples pay a $110 fee to Gisborne District Council to get married on a beach? Some councillors have their doubts, but the answer is still yes after councillors, sitting this week as the finance and performance committee, adopted the...
Firefighters were called to Banks Street in the industrial subdivision yesterday morning in response to a car fire in a wreckers yard. The call came in at around 9am. “The fire was started by gas cutting gear which set fire to flammable materials...
A Gisborne air traffic controller picked up an award at last weekend’s New Zealand Association of Women in Aviation Rally. About 80 women gathered at Hamilton Airport over the weekend for the rally, with the event’s visual air navigation contest...
by Max Frethey Independent fishers are calling for the recommendations of the ministerial inquiry into forestry slash to be implemented nationwide. Ministers commissioned the report — titled Outrage into Optimism — into woody debris and sediment...
The first five months of 2023 have seen Gisborne deluged with almost as much rain as a full year . . . but has it really been wet? Those first five months brought two sub-tropical cyclones, Hale and Gabrielle, and huge rainfall figures have been...
Matt King, the leader and founder of new party Democracy NZ, will be in Gisborne next week to introduce the party’s candidate,Chris Robinson, who will contest the East Coast electorate seat in the general election in October. Mr Robinson is...
Watching farmers and dogs at work was the inspiration for Gisborne teenager Harley Teepa (Te Aitanga a Māhaki) to enrol in agriculture at EIT|Te Pūkenga. The 17-year-old loves the outdoors and watching farmers and their dogs moving sheep spurred...
A farm manager who lost his job and the house that came with it when a Māori Incorporation decided to exit farming, has been granted a temporary court order to remain in the house. Michael Ferris (snr) is a shareholder in the Nuhiti Q Incorporation...
A brief window of blue sky opened over the district yesterday, but then MetService arrived with a bucket of cold water in the shape of another rain forecast. As earlier indicated, a south-east flow has developed over the North Island, and an...
Wilencote Polled Herefords at Ngatapa kept the good news coming on Wednesday afternoon when it comes to the rising-two-year-old bull sales season in this region, with another near sell-out result. The Humphreys family got two of their young bulls...
Roger Handford The end of the three-month coastal service between Gisborne and Napier raises a number of questions which have not been answered. In total $2.75 million of taxpayers’ money was spent on this venture, but no assessment has yet been...
Gisborne District Council’s 2023/2024 Annual Plan has a short-term focus on repairing roads and bridges, and resilience work for the city’s water supply system. It sets out what the council can commit to delivering over the next financial year...