Alzheimers NZ’s Gisborne services face permanent closure due to government funding restrictions, it was revealed yesterday. “We’re clinging to the lifeboats,” Alzheimers Gisborne manager Tracy Robinson said. “We may have to close down...
The Labour Party Maori Caucus ministers were in Gisborne yesterday to spread the word on the Budget 2023 funding announcements for Maori. The total Māori package this year is just over $825 million. Funding announced included $23m for extending Te...
Kerrah Simmentals from Whakaki kept the bull sales season success going in the region on Tuesday when they achieved an almost total clearance in their on-farm auction. The Knauf family put up 73 rising two-year-old bulls and sold 72 of them at...
The cost of the Gisborne District Council election of 2022 has been determined at $217,000 plus GST for 35,000 electors, or $6 plus GST for each elector. The figures came from Gisborne electoral officer Dale Ofsoske in a report prepared for the...
Only 28 Māori in Tairāwhiti received a measles vaccination over a two year “massive” measles vaccination catch-up campaign. Health Minister Ayesha Verrall says the Ministry of Health had “good intentions” when it planned the campaign...
Close encounters highlighted Week 4 of Poverty Bay club hockey including a classic duel between last year’s men’s competition grand finalists. As predicted, defending champions YMP A and Lytton Old Boys Traktion produced the men’s game of the...
Ovation New Zealand Ltd is partnering with inMR Measure Ltd (inMR) to test the development of an intramuscular fat (IMF) lamb grading technology at its Gisborne plant in Dunstan Road. The concept has been developed with the support and co-funding...
The Motu Trails Charitable Trust will receive $90,000 from Trust Tairāwhiti over three years to boost their marketing and promotions to attract more visitors to the region. That was one of 11 applications approved in the trust’s latest funding...
The other new team in Premier Grade netball, Ngatapa, face a tough task tonight when they front up to in-form YMP in the YMCA. Turanga FM YMP racked up over 80 goals against newly promoted YMP (2) in the Pak’nSave competition at the weekend. YMP...
Netball Pak’nSave Gisborne Netball, SATURDAY, Premier/Prem Reserve games are 4 x 15-minute quarters. All other games are 4 x 10-minute quarters. Duty teams to put up the goal pads, set up team benches (courts 1 and 2) put out bins: NHEW Tein...
by Rockin’ Robin Luca Vita was first and his father Mike second in the feature race of Eastland Kart Club’s last meeting of its 10th season. Racing was to a high standard as drivers dealt with windy conditions on Sunday. It was their last...
Mixed results continued last week in the third night of BIZminton 2023, the business house badminton league. In the competitive grade, Cuzzys continued their winning form, defeating Mixed Combo four matches to two, while Unknowns remain at the top...
Monday, May 15 — President’s Pairs 3 North/South East/West Helen Kerisome, Pippa Williams 60.42 Vicki Nickerson, Frank Roach 61.31 Patricia Corson, Bette Parker 56.85 Graham Maclaurin, Gary Chalmers 52.98 Pamela Clay, Mark Fleming 49.70 Katrine...
A blood-and-guts performance earned Gisborne Boys’ High School second 15 victory over Napier Boys’ High in Gisborne on Saturday. Coach Mike Kora’s team opened their Super 8 campaign at home with a 13-7 win at the Rectory. Cody Tarei was the...
Thorn Parkes has played his first great knock in England. The former Poverty Bay cricket captain played a match-winning unbeaten knock of 105 off 104 balls on his 50-over debut for Three Bridges against Mayfield in the Sussex Premier League. The...
POVERTY BAY Poverty Bay Bowling Club members competed in a closing day rotational triples tournament as a farewell to their cyclone-damaged artificial turf. In rotational triples, players all have a turn in each position — skip, director and lead...
With the King’s Birthday Weekend local derby looming, Poverty Bay selectors believe they have a balanced and exciting squad to take on Ngāti Porou East Coast in Gisborne. A 44-man squad were named this week — 15 of them from the Premier club...
HortNZ has been heavily involved in providing the Government with numerous reports on Cyclone Gabrielle’s impact. The organisation started working with the Government immediately after the cyclone struck. “We strongly advocated for the...
Gold Creek Simmentals from Te Karaka kicked off the Gisborne stud bull sale season on Monday afternoon on a very positive note with an almost total clearance, a bull sold to stud and a healthy average. The on-farm auction drew a great crowd with the...
by Peter Jones It was comforting to see that all sides of the debate are genuinely concerned about the impact of recent storms on the viability of humans living throughout our district. Who could doubt that Hekia Parata did the best that she knew...
by Tony Harvie Forty years back as chairman of Te Karaka Federated Farmers, I made a public statement that TK was living on borrowed time and relocation was a growing threat. City engineers at the time labelled this alarmist but it has eventuated...
When I read the front-page article of Saturday’s Gisborne Herald, I could not believe my eyes regarding the huge amount of money allegedly being given to help Tairawhiti’s cyclone recovery. On Sunday I emailed the editor and voiced my concerns...
The security deal signed this week by Papua New Guinea and the United States is a major counter-manoeuvre in the battle for influence in the South Pacific between the US and China. Over the past decade, China has strengthened its ties in the...
Forty minutes after Maraea Smith was shot dead in Titoki Street, Mongrel Mob affiliate Mercedies Grace wandered up to a police cordon, beer in hand, slurring her words, and claiming she knew nothing about it. She initially said she’d been at...
Wairoa’s David Scragg and George Sheild from Tolaga Bay were in the top seven of three events at the “noon call” in the Tux South Island and New Zealand dog trial championships at Balclutha yesterday. Scragg was in the leading group in event...
A nationwide Te Whatu Ora Health NZ pre-employment vaccination policy is under development. The Government’s Covid-19 vaccination mandate, or compulsory vaccination for health workers, has been lifted, but a Te Whatu Ora Tairāwhiti spokeswoman...
The first signs of a developing El Niño climate pattern have been spotted by a space satellite. Gisborne-East Coast farmers and those affected by weather systems need to be aware of the imminent change and incorporate the latest advice in their...
A man on a mission to house people displaced by Cyclone Gabrielle has painted a grim picture of Tairāwhiti’s worst-affected in a fiery email to the district council. Toitu Tairāwhiti Builtsmart Ltd director Willie Te Aho has worked to house...
Fire and Emergency New Zealand will today deploy 25 firefighters from across New Zealand to Alberta to help fight wildfires in Western Canada, and one of them is from Gisborne. The contingent is made up of four five-person firefighting crews — an...
Uncertainty, lack of detail and an awareness of possible major change after October’s general election remain among concerns Gisborne district councillors have about water reforms. Councillors, sitting at a full meeting of Gisborne District...
Homes on Wheatstone Road could be among those officially flagged as being at risk from mud volanoes, a new report reveals. A staff report to go before Gisborne District Council’s Civil Defence and Emergency Management committee today (Wednesday)...
The first family has moved into new Kāinga ora housing on Manuka Street after the site was blessed on Monday morning. The blessing marked the completion of the first seven of a 14-home development. “It’s great to see the first seven homes at...
Surfers were out in force on Sunday as Tangaroa turned on epic waves at Wainui, which continued into Monday albeit it not as big. Among those to knock on the door of the green room was Ben Cowper at the No Access break. Ben is used to being behind...
Gisborne District Council chief executive Nedine Thatcher Swann says there is a lot of “good stuff” in the report from the Ministerial Inquiry into Land Use but she believed the inquiry report had not covered actions taken by the council in...