Trust unaware until six days after processing second payment A cyclone recovery grant was issued to a forestry company nearly three months after it ceased trading and 12 days after it went into liquidation, Regional Economic Development Agency Trust...
The chair of a Tairāwhiti governance group has expressed disappointment at the recent departure of key stakeholders from its ranks. Rau Tipu Rau Ora (RTRO) was set up in 2020 to lead a region-wide response to Covid-19, and includes representatives...
The latest rain over the Gisborne-East Coast region does not appear to have caused any serious problems although it is keeping the region’s soils at saturation level. The slopes of the Raukumara Ranges have copped most of the recent rain, with no...
Gisborne Dog Training Club’s annual obedience and agility championship was held over two days at the A&P Showgrounds on King’s Birthday Weekend. About 77 ability dogs, who carried out 400 runs on the obstacle course, and 50 obedience dogs...
Surfer Saffi Vette is set to join Gisborne’s list of Olympians after provisionally qualifying for the Paris Games at the International Surfing Association (ISA) World Surfing Games in El Salvador yesterday. Vette was knocked out of the women’s...
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There has been a lot of media speculation about a possible fertiliser tax and what this means for agricultural emissions pricing and the He Waka Eke Noa partnership, so I wanted to update you on this issue. We are committed to playing our part on...
It ain’t over till it’s over. At halftime, Ngāti Porou East Coast Kaupoi had momentum and the lead over Poverty Bay in their King’s Birthday Weekend Derby at the Oval on Saturday. It mattered not to Civil Project Solutions Poverty Bay Wekas...
Gisborne United right-winger Jacob Adams tries to get past Napier Marist midfielder Rueben Thurston in a Central Federation Cup game at Harry Barker Reserve yesterday. Pacific Premiership pacesetters Marist beat Eastern League leaders Heavy...
Never leave a Jags game early. Those words could well be the 2023 motto for Gisborne Thistle’s Federation League team. Two goals — one for the Jags and the other, against — continued a trend of late strikes deciding their matches. At...
Monday, May 29 — Sean Shivnan Pharmacy Championship Pairs 4 North/South East/West Carolyn McMurray, Elizabeth Jackson 64.24 Vicki Nickerson, Frank Roach 60.32 Robin Bennett, Jean Bennett 57.64 Hans van der Kuijl, Katrine Matthews 53.37 Katrin...
The tiresome frequency with which Iain Boyle attempts to persuade this district to reject the present Government is very easily disregarded, but his conviction that he understands politics, academia, school curricula and goodness knows what else...
Ben R-S, do the only honourable thing left and check your self in at The Circle. Allah bless the souls taken by this Crusader. Harawira Craig Pearless Qandahar 2008-2010
I can’t believe that the Comet Swimming Club has missed out on the learn-to-swim contract. The Australian-based company Belgravia Leisure has over $2 billion in assets, therefore they are not in it for the love of swimming but want to see profit...
Manu Caddie The new NZ Space Policy released last week is quite a contrast with another space policy document released on the same day: “For All Humanity — the Future of Outer Space Governance: Our Common Agenda Policy Brief” released by the...
The first King’s Birthday Honours for seven decades have seen well deserved recognition for true East Coaster Selwyn Parata, a kaitiaki for his people who is now a knight. Sir Selwyn has played major, long-serving roles for his iwi Ngati Porou and...
Twenty-four newly-official New Zealanders took part in a citizenship ceremony at Gisborne Council Chambers last week. They were then sworn in by Mayor Rehette Stoltz and joined her for a photograph. They are Ann Margaret Bjerring and Jane Margaret...
Bad news for East Coast residents who are fearful of the weather — this week’s outlook is for rain every day until the following Wednesday. The latest rain is being delivered by a low which is expected to pass slowly from the west of the North...
An online petition has been started demanding Gisborne District Council review its decision to award the contract for learn-to-swim classes at the new Kiwa Pools to an offshore company. The council awarded the contract to Australian-owned company...
Saturated ground after months of wet weather meant the Trust Tairāwhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter had to set down in a rocky riverbed. Just before 10am on the first day of winter, the team was called to a property just south-west of Tikitiki where...
Tauawhi Men’s Centre is transferring to local governance as an independent entity at the end of this month. Tauawhi has been a service of Presbyterian Support East Coast (PSEC) since it opened in July 2010 to provide a “one-stop shop”...
Impacts for Gisborne-East Coast sheep and beef farmers estimated at $112m-$128m: B+LNZ Cyclones Hale and Gabrielle cost sheep and beef farmers in the Gisborne, Hawke’s Bay, Tararua and Wairarapa regions between $336 million and $385m, according to...
The primary goal for Eastern Whio Link (EWL), a hunter and fishermen-led local project, has always been to protect New Zealand’s only endemic blue duck (whio). A mana whenua-led group, EWL is also being supported by Blood Origins which is...
LeaderBrand founder Murray McPhail was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (NZOM) in the King’s Birthday Honours List for his services to horticulture. Mr McPhail founded the diverse horticulture business in 1975, introducing...
A life of service to Māori has earned Ngāti Porou leader Selwyn Tanetoa Parata a knighthood in this year’s King’s Honours List. Sir Selwyn (Ngāti Porou, Ngāi Tahu) was named a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his...
The ‘red’ cattle get their chance to shine in the sales rings next week when Mokairau Herefords at Whangara and Wilencote at Ngatapa present their rising two-year-olds this sales season. The Reeves family at Mokairau will have 26 young sires all...
A smaller yarding of 1548 sheep was sent to the weekly Matawhero Saleyards yesterday, prices paid being similar to those at recent sales. The bulk of the numbers consisted of 1295 store male lambs. The best price paid for these was $144 for 237...
INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS 180s: T Irwin 2 (Brezz’n Gold); A Taukamo-Pohio 2 (Vikings); M Reedy (Done n Dusted); S Harris, S Nisbett (Eastland Asphalts); T Ratapu (Spartans). Highest start (180): T Irwin (Brezz’n Gold); A Taukamo-Pohio (Vikings)...
INDOOR BOWLS It was certainly a game of two halves in the local final of the New Zealand mixed fours competition between eventual winners Keith Setter, David Lynn, Nanette Treloar and Sara Lamont, and Jay Casey, Doc Tipene, Krystel Williams and...
Pauline E Tangiora What has happened to the reform of our health system? Getting this right should have been the priority leading up to July last year when the district health boards were disestablished. So many people are falling by the wayside. It...
Local politicians in cyclone and flood-hit regions around the North Island have responded cautiously to the Government’s announcement this week about the co-funding of buyout offers for almost 700 homeowners in the highest risk areas, and flood...
Sheldon Drummond spoke to U3A this week and last month about “Slash and Forestry — A Way Forward”. What an inspirational man with a long practical and academic career in the forestry industry both in NZ and overseas. I am concerned that the...
Re: “Forgotten road”, June 1 story. The GDC refer to the road leading into a property, Number 37 Branson Rd, as being on private property. My husband and I bought half an acre there in 1999, built a home and lived there until 15th May 2015. Our...
When decisions are made there will always be questions raised. The GDC staff and an outside consultant made the call to appoint an Australian-based operation to deliver learn-to-swim lessons at the new Kiwa Pools. Perhaps their tender was more...