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Golf croquet titles to Humphreys and Elzen
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Golf croquet titles to Humphreys and Elzen

Barry Memorial Croquet Club’s golf croquet club champs are done and dusted. The championships were split into open and intermediate sections, the latter for players with handicaps of nine and over. Unfortunately, entry numbers for both sections...

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Winning start for Senior 1 new boys Uawa
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Winning start for Senior 1 new boys Uawa

The Senior 1 club rugby season is off to a rip-roaring start. Two-time defending champions Charteris Choppers Wairoa Athletic beat their hosts OBM 29-5, the Nuhaka V8s — team No. 3 in last year’s semifinals — beat Ngatapa Harvest Matawhero...

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Swansong match for Uawa vet Mathias
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Swansong match for Uawa vet Mathias

He and his boy came in, did a job and did it well. Veteran tight-forward John Mathias — who is shortly to return to Otago after three seasons with Ngāti Porou East Coast club rugby titans Uawa — played for five different clubs down south over...

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City water supply remains vulnerable
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City water supply remains vulnerable

News that Gisborne’s main water supply was identified as being at unacceptable risk of catastrophic failure months before it was broken in multiple places during Cyclone Gabrielle won’t come as a surprise to anyone familiar with the situation...

Any wonder some young white males rebel?
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Any wonder some young white males rebel?

It’s hard these days not to feel sorry for someone who is white, straight and male. Taught throughout their education that they are irredeemably racist, they are condemned for their ethnicity, their masculinity, their cisgender normality, their...

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’Tahi 1 set pennants pace
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’Tahi 1 set pennants pace

Home-course team Patutahi (1) flexed their muscles with a near-perfect return in the opening rounds of the Oligoi Jug men’s interclub golf pennants on Saturday. Patutahi’s four-man team beat Te Puia Springs 6-2 in Round 1 on the Patutahi course...

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Honours shared in Jags’ Fed opener
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Honours shared in Jags’ Fed opener

Gisborne Thistle opened their Central Federation League football campaign with a 1-1 draw against Taradale in Hawke’s Bay on Saturday. Striker Jimmy Somerton scored seven minutes before halftime for ALH Thistle and former Jags rightback Brandon...

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Sparking belief in dormant HSOB
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Sparking belief in dormant HSOB

Scorelines don’t always tell the story. Enterprise Cars OBM defeated High School Old Boys 55-22 in Poverty Bay premier club rugby on Saturday but for more than 60 minutes of a match in which the Peter Martin Cup was up for grabs, it was...

Adding water tanks in city makes sense
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Adding water tanks in city makes sense

More houses are being built to accommodate a larger population . . . where will more water come from to serve those families? When he was our mayor Meng Foon suggested requiring water tanks on properties for new residential construction. The GDC of...

A big cut to rates bill?
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A big cut to rates bill?

I suspect that I am not alone in struggling to understand how the new Affordable Water Reforms structure will be composed and how the charges will be billed. Can the council please confirm that our rates will go down? In examining my rates bill I...

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Nurse protests a worry for Government
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Nurse protests a worry for Government

Weekend scenes of national protests by nurses would not have been a welcome sight for the Government six months out from an election in which the overall health sector situation is going to be a key attack point for the Opposition. Nurses from...

Ute rolls in Atkinson Street
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Ute rolls in Atkinson Street

The emergency services were called to Atkinson Street near the Taruheru Crescent corner in Riverdale last night after a ute rolled. It happened at around 9pm. When police, firefighters and St John officers arrived no one was at the scene. “The...

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Huge seas judged too dangerous for racing
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Huge seas judged too dangerous for racing

Mountainous onshore seas deemed too dangerous for racing brought an early end to the IRB national championships at Waihi Beach. The 120 crews there for the BP-sponsored event — including four from Kaiaponi Farms Waikanae — went home...

A veteran’s insight
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A veteran’s insight

Retired warrant officer Jack Donnelly looks back at Anzac Day from the era of universally respected Great War veterans to more recent times featuring veterans from the more controversial Vietnam War . . . The days when the Gisborne community...

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Bridge results
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Bridge results

Tuesday, April 11 — Beetham Lifestyle Village Swiss Pairs 2 (victory points — after six rounds) Carolyn McMurray, Elizabeth Jackson 75.92 VP Caroline Kirkpatrick, Robyn Cheyne 73.73 VP Jean Turnbull, Caroline Taylor 69.07 VP Diana Styche, Joy...

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More say comes at significant cost
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More say comes at significant cost

Debate on the Three Waters makeover called Affordable Water Reforms has centred initially on the contentious parts that remained, such as co-governance and the removal of assets from council balance sheets, but as time goes on the focus may well...