The piles required to support the new Hikuwai Bailey bridge on State Highway 35 north of Gisborne will be going deeper to ensure a solid footing for construction. The Bailey bridge will replace the Hikuwai No. 1 bridge, which was damaged in Cyclone...
Federated Farmers Gisborne-based forestry spokesperson Toby Williams is urging the Government to act quickly on the recommendations made in the Ministerial Inquiry into Land Use report. “The Government needs to take the recommendations in this...
The Eastland Wood Council — Te Kaunihera Pororākau o Te Tairāwhiti (EWC) has welcomed the release of the Ministerial Inquiry into Land Use report. “This thorough report is an important step forward for our community, as we all make changes...
Predictably there has been a swift back-slash to the so-called slash report which came out yesterday afternoon. Mayor Rehette Stoltz has come out fighting, expressing “our disappointment”, “serious concerns” and that “we fundamentally...
Gavin Maclean (May 10) obviously missed my point, along with the fact the percentage of tax our wealthiest New Zealanders pay is now being compared and criticised based on their unrealised capital gains over 2021, a year of fast-rising asset prices...
Natasha Baulis Maxim Institute researcher As a foreigner newly arrived here, there’s much to delight in, but I don’t think I will ever be able to get behind “gumboot” tea. Don’t get me wrong; I think the analogy is perfect: the te...
The trepidation with which calls for an independent inquiry into land uses associated with the mobilisation of woody debris and sediment were met in some quarters has been justified by the hard-hitting report released yesterday. That included the...
Turkey’s elections are fairly free, and there is going to be one this Sunday (May 14). President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been in power for two decades, and he should really lose by a landslide. Imagine what the United States would be like if...
Travel writer Mike Yardley discovers a trip to Queensland is incomplete without seeing some of the world’s most amazing and endangered animals. If you’re treating the family to a Sunshine Coast winter escape, spend a night at Australia Zoo. The...
Adorable, colourful and easy to make, these popcorn pops are the sweet treat every celebration needs. If you’re short on time, this is a quick, simple Mother’s Day recipe for kids. These delicious popcorn pops are really easy to rustle up and...
A desire to always be in the forest has subtly inspired Renee Raroa’s mahi. After making headlines for speaking at the United Nations, she caught up with kaupapa Māori reporter Matai O’Connor. I was blessed to grow up in a place where the hills...
A former Gisborne family is setting sail on a two-year odyssey to bring medical help to poor regions of Africa. Fred and Maria Kuo told the Herald why they were embarking on their mission of mercy. Relocating their family of five to volunteer on...
Seven reserves around the region remain closed following the damage caused by Cyclone Gabrielle in February. Gisborne District Council has confirmed Doneraille Park, De Costa Park, the small reserve at the junction of Fitzherbert Street and Clifford...
Reporting their stepfather’s sexual offending against them cost four sisters their mother but even so, the girl who first spoke up says she has “absolutely no regrets” about doing so as it gave her sisters the strength to come forward too. On...
Gisborne and Wairoa businesses have been given a helping hand as they continue to work through the impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle. Business Mentors New Zealand is supporting the ongoing recovery of those affected, with $20,000 worth of mentor...
A woman says a previous sentence of home detention didn’t stop her peddling drugs, but a recent stint on remand in jail was the “big wake-up call” she needed. Standing in the dock of Gisborne District Court yesterday, Darling-Delicia Kaui, 45...
Forestry here has “lost its social licence” due to poor practices faciliated by Gisborne District Council’s “capitulation to the permissiveness of the regulatory regime”. Those are two main findings released yesterday by the Panel for the...
It’s yet another blow to our society and the commercial fabric of Tairawhiti. I write to express my sympathy, empathy, gratitude and moral support to the owners of both Gisborne Herald and Evans Meats. As a dedicated loyal customer and follower of...
When will we learn that when we create electronic equipment that needs metals such as lithium etc, there is a fine art to this creation? It seems that above ground we are running out of these metals. It is disappointing to find that Parliamentarians...
Re: “Didn’t feel heard”, GH 10 May 2023. I know what it feels like “not to be heard” because when Sir Robert’s messenger approached this Minister for veteran support in 2021 he was told: “I don’t work 24 hours a day bro, make an...
Oh, how I do love the extravagant, hyperbolic claims of some of our perennial writers to the editor! “Our economy is in ruins . . .” and “. . . thanks to our luckless attempts to save ourselves from a common cold” — the last comment...
by Clive Bibby This column will be seen by some as premature because it is written prior to the reporting of the Hekia Parata-led inquiry into land use on the East Coast. My response to that is — it needs to be! Because the alternative would most...
After a string of political polls showing a finely balanced electorate tilting back towards Labour since Chris Hipkins took over as leader and Prime Minister, National and the Act Party will take heart from the latest Taxpayers’ Union-Curia poll...
Makauri School Room 4 and 5 students have made their school a little wealthier and helped people take note of the city’s water crisis after their song won Gisborne District Council’s Wero Tiaki Wai — Embrace the Challenge conserve water...
by Sherrill Beale Premier sides Gisborne Girls’ High Senior A and Horouta Koura hit the court running with emphatic wins in the first of the Challenge round games on Wednesday night. Girls’ High outgunned YMP (2) 59-22 and Horouta eased past...
The cream has risen. Rounds 5 and 6 of the Oligoi Jug men’s interclub pennants were expected to be Moving Day for those hunting semifinal berths in the matchplay series. And move they did. Patutahi (1), as they have done since Round 1, virtually...
by Scraggy GMC Green know their A’s from their B’s but there could be the odd double take in their Poverty Bay women’s club hockey game tomorrow night. The Green Machine will be out to keep their unbeaten run intact when they face YMP B at 6pm...
Gisborne primary football First Kicks 4v4, Watson Park, 8.30am: 1, Awapuni Green v Mangatuna; 2, Kaiti Paoa v Wainui Mussels; 3, Kaiti Horouta v Wainui Kina; 4, Mangapapa Storm v Wainui Paua; 5, Mangapapa Mist v Wainui Crays; 6, Mangapapa Floods v...
‘We know what we are in for’ Families, friends and fierce competitors will make it a big day out up State Highway 35 tomorrow. The H Blackbee Contractors Ngāti Porou East Coast men’s and Enterprise Cars NPEC women’s club rugby competitions...
by Ginny Sherriff Former New Zealand international lawn bowler David File picked up his 84th centre title when he won the centre men’s singles at Gisborne Bowling Club. Te Karaka club champion File beat Gisborne club champion Malcolm Trowel 21-18...
Thistle Firsts copped the backlash of Wainui Sharks’ loss to clubmates Demons the previous week. Sunshine Brewing Wainui Sharks beat Property Brokers Gisborne Thistle Firsts 6-2 in an Eastern League 1 football match at Childers Road Reserve on...
If there was ever a time Heartland Championship hopefuls want to impress Poverty Bay selectors, tomorrow is it. The annual Town v Country match returns to the Poverty Bay Rugby Football Union calendar after last being held in 2020. Ngatapa’s...
Gisborne’s place as a major Chardonnay producer will be celebrated on International Chardonnay Day. This year the annual Chardonnay Affair takes place at The Vines at Matawhero midday to 5pm on May 27, rather than over Labour Day weekend. “It is...
New research has found New Zealand’s policy of allowing fossil-fuel emitters to offset all their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by planting trees is at odds with the rest of the world, and it is having a damaging impact on the agricultural sector...