One of New Zealand’s top young entrepreneurs is eyeing Gisborne as the next location for his multimillion-dollar valued company Aotearoa Labour Hire (ALH) as he shoots for a $100 million-a-year goal. Former Lytton High student and ALH managing...
Cyclone Gabrielle heavily disrupted the Tairāwhiti economy over the first quarter of 2023 and while this hampered usual activity levels, economic consultancy Infometrics says various indicators show the regional economy had been able to maintain...
Unheard of” tech opportunities are in the pipeline for people here with British design giant Arup. Last month, the company started a three-year pilot programme to bring paid interns from Gisborne under its tutelage. Pavaris “Bomb” Kakanat is...
The frightening and furious power of nature hit the Gisborne-East Cape region with full force at the weekend, as the fiercest thunder and lightning storm in many years hit the region. Records indicate it was the strongest lightning storm since the...
Greenpeace has released a short documentary featuring Tairawhiti’s Tui Warmenhoven (Ngāti Porou), who is a community leader, lawyer, researcher and the Greenpeace Aotearoa board chair. Warmenhoven has witnessed the terrible impacts of cyclones...
A final call is being put out for owners of heritage properties in Gisborne to apply for grants through this year’s National Heritage Preservation Incentive Fund. The annual fund provides financial incentives to encourage the conservation of...
The arrival of two new team members brings the Trust Tairāwhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter team of critical care flight paramedics up to the optimum number needed to operate in the region. The news gets even better. The service on Friday learned it...
More than a dozen community members were given full training on how to create activated biochar and smokeless briquettes at Tolaga Bay Innovation Hub last month. After their recent success of placing second in Tairāwhiti’s Start-up Weekend event...
Monday, June 12 — No Trumps Pairs 2 North/South East/West Bette Parker, Eileen Lee 58.75 Beverley Evans, Murray Owen 55.00 Patricia Corson, Elizabeth Jackson 56.25 Raewynne Cook, Hans van der Kuijl 54.48 Carolyn McMurray, Robyn Cheyne 55.00 Glenys...
Two set-piece goals were the difference between Gisborne Thistle and Palmerston North United in Central Federation League football on Saturday. Palmerston North United (PNU) beat ALH Gisborne Thistle 4-2 after the Jags had led 2-1 midway through the...
Talent and enthusiasm were displayed in large quantities at the inter-primary school rugby sevens tournament held on the Rectory field last week. Twenty-six boys' and girls' teams from schools throughout the district took part in the Poverty Bay...
Gisborne Pak’nSave senior netball — Premier Grade: Gisborne Girls’ High Senior A 48 Character Roofing YMP 41, Horouta Koura 52 Farmlands Ngatapa 24. Other grades (*bonus point for scoring within three goals.), Prem Reserve/A Grade: Down to...
Mitigating flood risks to future-proof properties across Tairāwhiti is a mammoth task for authorities and the many affected residents that will take time to work through and implement solutions at both the community and property level. For anyone...
Simin Williams I should have saved my “hypocrisy reeks to heaven” heading for this news item “Shaw advocates for solar energy” (June 14), or maybe we can make a regular column under that heading as we head into election season! Let’s first...
Referencing Simin Williams’ response to the advice to “take a break and breathe deep”, in her letter of Thursday, June 15. What would you call someone whose obsession with Jacinda Ardern, attributes to her all the woes of the country? What...
Like Lara Meyer, I would like to know how Peter Jones believes our region should address eroding land and keeping people employed. There are a vast number of anti-pine critics out there who haven’t a clue of the scale of erosion or downstream...
“Staggering” she could even have stood up with that much alcohol in her system before she got in the car: Judge A woman was nearly five and a half times over the legal alcohol limit for driving when she hit a parked car on Lyell Road...
With more rain in the pipeline for the Gisborne region, it is no surprise the first half of the month has been woefully short on sunshine. After the first 15 days of June, sunshine at Gisborne totalled a miserable 42 hours. The latest 30-year...
Wairoa and Gisborne mayors have welcomed news of a new air route linking Gisborne and Hawke’s Bay. North Island airline Sunair Aviation is launching a new weekday service connecting Napier and Wairoa, and Napier and Gisborne, starting at the end...
St John has put a call out for people to join as a Major Incident Support Team volunteer — a team who provide a world-leading response to major incidents and large events across the country. MIST, as it is known, requires non-clinical people to...
A grandiose, dramatic and energetic display of baroque music is on offer when the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra returns to Tairawhiti on Tuesday. The Gisborne performance is part of the NZSO’s Baroque Innovations tour directed by orchestr...
House prices here continue to fall but realtors do not expect the market’s mid-winter blues to last much longer. Latest data from the Real Estate Institute (REINZ) shows the region’s median price is down $65,000 from a year ago. “Gisborne’s...
A $70,000 grant from the New Zealand Disaster Fund is supporting crews as they go door-to-door in Wairoa to help clean up homes. Nearly half of the funds raised by the New Zealand Disaster Fund have been issued in the form of grants from the New...
Due to wet weather expected next week, planned asphalting work on State Highway 2 will start on the evening of Wednesday, June 21, or the next fine night. The area between Matawai township and Waioeka Gorge will be under a full road closure, with no...
Te Kiwi Tuaro a-Motu-National Volunteer Week runs from Monday to Saturday of next week and among the many organisations that rely heavily on volunteers is Surf Life Saving New Zealand (SLNZ). Leading up to the week, SLSNZ has profiled a number of...
The scale of work to remove flood-damaged Te Reinga Bridge near Wairoa this week is unlike anything else Wairoa-based Quality Roading and Services and other contractors have worked on. The 300-tonne Te Reinga Bridge was collapsed into the river on...
Jo Ferris cycles the Pou Herenga Tai Twin Coast Trail and discovers new places. Over the years, trips north have included visiting the usual historic landmarks. But when discussion about the Pou Herenga Tai Twin Coast Trail was tabled for the annual...
Youngsters from Te Wharau School had an Olympian walk through their doors and were suitably impressed. New Zealand kayaker Alicia Hoskin was back on her stomping ground before heading to Cambridge for zero-degree morning training to continue her...
There were 1977 sheep sent for sale at the Matawhero saleyards yesterday, where buyers are still prepared to pay good money for the best of the store male lambs, but expressed caution on the store ewe lambs and smaller sorts. The 46 prime sheep sold...
Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon resigned from his role yesterday over an undisclosed conflict of interest. Foon, who previously spent six terms as mayor of Gisborne, was appointed by the Labour Government to the role of Race Relations...
INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS 180s: T Irwin (Brezz’n Gold); B Leach (Done n Dusted); Q Stevens (Rebels); R Edwards (6 Shooters); K Morrell, F Moreland (Roseland); I Eyles (Gunz); H Ngarangione (Stallions). Highest start (180): K Morrell (Roseland); H...
The green-and-blacks are on the warpath. Unbeaten Civil Project Solutions Senior 1 men’s club rugby leaders The Roseland Tavern Tapuae Taniwha, who spent three hours travelling 200 kilometres from Wairoa to Gisborne and back for a win by default...
Gwynne Dyer We’re going to miss the populist “big beasts” now that they’re gone. Who will now tell us that “Voting Conservative will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3”? (Boris Johnson)...