A forestry company is yet to signal whether it will own or defend accusations it committed numerous environmental offences while harvesting Papakorokoro Forest, near Ngakoroa Road. Forwood Forest Management Limited and its director, Matthew...
New water supply system 'has been a long time coming’.
Turanga Health administered nearly 10 percent of the country’s total Covid booster immunisations in four hours during one day in Pātūtahi in April. Community providers are leading the charge for immunisation, says Turanga Health chief executive...
Congratulations this week to Joy Marden and Patricia Corson for scoring 71.88 percent on Wednesday. Patricia also featured in the results of each session. Tuesday, June 6 — No Trumps Pairs 1 North/South East/West Bette Parker, Eileen Lee 59.23...
Gisborne Thistle had a day to remember in Central Federation League football in Manawatu on Saturday. They lost 6-1 to Palmerston North Marist and they’ll want the memory of that defeat to galvanise their effort for the game this weekend. Thistle...
Waikohu (1) put their Wednesday night upset defeat behind them in the best possible way in Premier Grade netball at the YMCA on Saturday. The Claydens Waikohu side — beaten by Gisborne Girls’ High Senior A in a midweek game — turned on...
Pirates ended their 2023 win drought. YMP’s Seth Lundon marked his 50th Premier cap with a hat-trick. And an Ethine Reeves try in the 79th minute snatched victory for Waikohu. Those were among the highlights of an entertaining Week 8 of the Civil...
Both major party leaders found themselves in the headlights last week but for Christopher Luxon it was a brief dazzling, while things were glaringly and uncomfortably bright for Prime Minister Chris Hipkins and two wayward senior ministers. Luxon...
Marcus Roberts, Maxim Institute director of research A prison sentence means losing certain freedoms: primarily freedom of movement and freedom of association. Those sentenced to jail for more than three years also lose their ability to vote in our...
Re: Showing the way for wāhine Māori, June 9 story. Way to go Katareina Kaiwai. What an awesome article. I love to read about those succeeding in our community and empowering others — working hard to enrich your life and those around you. She...
Jeepers Simin. WTH!!! Sociopath??? Really!? I find your letter Friday, 9th June 2023 very disturbing. I hope you have friends who are looking out for you. Take a break and breathe deep. DJ Hair
Answer to Christopher Luxon’s “I have no time for the Greens on economic policy: I won’t be lectured by the Greens on economics,” I have no time for National on humanitarian policy. I won’t be lectured by National on humanity. Gavin Maclean
A Taste of Opera — thank you Gisborne Choral Society for a wonderful concert on Sunday afternoon (11th June). It was a lovely interlude for such a dreich and dreary day, and it was a bonus to hear Aston, Madeleine and Te Rei as the Three Genii...
A Singaporean couple whose million-dollar tax evasion was discovered after their assets were frozen due to their son’s drug trafficking, have applied for court costs and damages. William Cheng and partner Nyioh Chew Hong are the father and...
Eastland Port had a great month for shipping in May with 11 log ships alongside the wharf. They took away more than 290,000 tonnes of logs. The success of the month came down to efficient loading by ISO Limited and good weather, a port spokesperson...
Seven groups will compete in the Central district round of the national secondary schools’ chamber music contest, at the Lawson Field Theatre tonight. Since its inception in 1965, the annual NZCT chamber music contest has provided a platform for...
People here are being urged to report elder abuse cases, ahead of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day on Thursday. Age Concern Tairāwhiti’s newly appointed chairman John McElhinney said he was keen to raise the organisation’s profile to encourage...
A video game developed largely in Gisborne is up for yet another global award. Katuku Island, a multi-player survival game with an indigenous overlay, has been nominated as a finalist in the American 2023 Gee Learning Game awards. The award...
The district’s saturated soils cannot take any more water — this was clearly shown during Sunday’s burst of heavy rain. While the amount of rain over Sunday was not particularly high, water levels rose rapidly, with surface flooding and...
A controversial decision not to send a WorkSafe investigator to the scene of a Gisborne forestry fatality severely compromised a probe into the accident, an investigator has told the grieving family. And officials say people they believe have...
Wi Pere Trust Horticulture of Gisborne was named the winner of this year’s Ahuwhenua Trophy for the top Māori horticultural enterprise. at an awards function in Tauranga on Friday night. Minister for Māori Development Willie Jackson made the...
Rugby Civil Project Solutions Poverty Bay Premier club rugby: East Coast Farm Vets YMP 57 Larsawn Ngatapa 12; Enterprise Cars OBM 24 GT Shearing Waikohu 29; Kevin Hollis Glass Turanga Pirates 29 Earthwork Solutions HSIB 19. CPS Senior 1: LVB Farm...
Mokairau and Wilencote Hereford studs enjoyed almost total clearances in their rising two-year-old bull sales this week and it augurs well for how well the Angus sales will go towards the end of the month. Both studs realised healthy averages across...
There were 1365 sheep sent for sale at the Matawhero Yards yesterday, comprising 50 prime sheep, 1004 store lambs and 266 store ewes of which 131 had been scanned in lamb. Prime prices remained steady. The lamb schedule rose 15 cents/kg at the...
Provisional maps have been released that show the areas here that fall under the Government’s three categories of future risk when it comes to flooding and landslides. The categories were announced last month by the Government, with Category 3...
The Bailey bridge to temporarily replace the Hikuwai No. 1 bridge on State Highway 35 destroyed by Cyclone Gabrielle, will open for traffic next week. It comes four months after the cyclone caused major devastation across the East Coast and having...
Fine should be between $650,000 and $700,000 says WorkSafe prosecutor A judge is yet to decide how much meat processing company Affco should be fined for the death of a worker who was crushed when a steel frame full of cartons fell on him in a blast...
The World Meteorological Organisation caused a stir last month when it raised its assessment of the likelihood the global average temperature would cross the 1.5C threshold for heating the planet since its pre-industrial state in one year sometime...
Clive Bibby Enforced changes to our social behaviour are having the reaction one might expect, and it does not bode well. This is doubly unfortunate for a country that is capable of accommodating any new direction and making slow but good progress...
Re your front page article on June 9. It is interesting to note this Government’s u-turn with regard to the investigation now proposed to use forestry slash as a source of biofuel/bioenergy. In January 2021 the Government agreed in principle to...
I recently wrote a letter to the editor about teachers wanting more pay, smaller classes, etc, etc. Well, I’ve just gone through my school photos from 1946-1956 and there is not one class with less than 31 students photographed. Some had 45-50...
When the youngsters from Tairāwhiti took the field at the home ground of NRL franchise the New Zealand Warriors, their opponents didn’t know where they were from. They do now. Mahaki Warriors and the Paikea Whalers went to Auckland last weekend...
Janine Hamilton-Kells talks to Avneesh Vincent about starting her own dancing club, Rhythm n’ Lines, taking up writing as a hobby and keeping community at heart. Starting Rhythm n’ Lines in 2021 was a way to “keep fit and learn something new...
The Olympic Pool has been hit by boiler issues again this week that saw the 50 metre pool closed for a few days while those issues were dealt with. It reopened again yesterday. Aquatics manager Campbell Macgregor said they had a boiler fault that...