NZ Landcare Trust has been acknowledged by the rural community for its dynamic response to the Cyclone Gabrielle clean-up in Te Tairāwhiti. Within days of the devastating cyclone, the independent, non-government organisation kick-started a focused...
It’s that time of year for the annual charity knits sale of new hand-knitted babies’ and children’s knitting and sundry other items. Once again, volunteer knitters have donated over 300 items to be sold at low cost to help families keep their...
Newly-independent MP Dr Elizabeth Kerekere has welcomed the report of the Ministerial Inquiry into Land use . “The advocacy and research of groups such as Mana Taiao Tairāwhiti led to this Ministerial Inquiry. “I am proud to see the report...
The opening weekend of this year’s duckshooting season brought a mixed bag for hunters. Many reported a great start, but others not so great, said Eastern Region senior fish and game officer Matthew McDougall. “After a great breeding season...
Jordan Walker, who stood for the Gisborne District Council in last year’s local body elections, has been selected as the Green Party candidate for East Coast in this year’s general election. Walker (they/them) grew up in Tūranga-nui-a-kiwa and...
The Gisborne International Music Competition (GIMC) and Chamber Music New Zealand (CMNZ) are pleased to announce their exciting music-based programme for Tairāwhiti Gisborne in 2023. This year’s community engagement programme will include...
A truck rollover on the top of Traffords Hill on State Highway 2 on Tuesday afternoon caused what was described as a “huge” build up of traffic heading in both directions. The crash happened at around 2pm and the highway was finally reopened to...
Rocket Lab’s Mahia spaceport will launch more storm-chasing satellites for NASA just two weeks after successfully completing its first launch. The launch, called “Coming To A Storm Near You”, is scheduled for lift-off no earlier than 5.30pm on...
Merv Utting and Bob will be among the Poverty Bay dog trial contingent heading south for the Tux South Island and New Zealand championships at the Warepa Collie Club near Balclutha. The competitions start on Monday (May 22) and run right through the...
The Government’s cyclone recovery package is providing dedicated investment into mental health and wellbeing support, including extending the successful Mana Ake programme developed following the Christchurch quakes into every school in...
COMMENT I agree with Manu Caddie (Gisborne Herald, May 16) that GDC has been caught between central government and th Dame Anne Salmond e forestry industry for generations. Wholesale land clearance of the highly erodible steeplands in Tairāwhiti...
Talented young performing artists here can now join those across the country who are being offered a financial boost thanks to the Dame Malvina Major Foundation. The Foundation’s Arts Excellence Awards support young New Zealanders of outstanding...
Gisborne Basketball Association’s Hoops in Parks Tairāwhiti initiative has been recognised at the 2023 Basketball New Zealand Awards in Wellington. The Kylie Turuwhenua-Tapsell-chaired GBA won the BBNZ Community Innovation Award. The initiative...
Movies will once again be back on the big screen with the Gaiety Theatre projector repaired and ready to roll. A technical breakdown with the Series 1 Christie projector meant the end of local movie screenings in August last year. Since then, the...
A marah Cameron won all-round gold in her division and Sarai Gudgeon won silver in hers at the Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay Senior Gymnastics Championships in Napier. They were among Gisborne Gymnastics Club members competing from Step 4 to Step 7 in...
Eastland representatives returned to Gisborne with two losses after their first-round ties in the 2023 inter-association super veterans’ Division 2 badminton competition in Hawke’s Bay. They played Waikato and Hawke’s Bay. Eastland team...
Gizzy musos have collaborated to bring together seven acts for NZ Music Month this May. Smash Palace will host GizzyBorn a local artist showcase on Saturday night. Acts taking the stage are ‘The Voles’, ‘Natasha Lee’, ‘Levi Mackey’...
First Kicks 4v4, Watson Park , 8.30am: 1, Awapuni Green v Kaiti Paoa; 11, Central Tahi v Te Wharau Kereru; 2, Central Rua v Te Wharau Kiwi; 3, Central Royals v St Mary’s Asteroids; 4, Makauri Warriors v St Mary’s Stars; 5, Te Hapara Toru v...
Re: Toko sports field dispute, May 11 story. Why a dispute? The Commissioner of Crown Lands in 1924 said that it should stay as a sports field! All these years it has been used by sports teams. Four rugby teams in the tournaments in the 1940s —...
by Clive Bibby I have never reacted to a Government-sponsored inquiry with as much sheer disappointment as l do the Hekia Parata-led review of land use in the Tairāwhiti and Wairoa regions. In some ways l am a reluctant responder to a “review”...
The slash and sediment inquiry has recommended that Gisborne District Council’s Resource Management authority be removed and that a Resource Management Commissioner be appointed until 2028. This reflects Council’s failure to adequately monitor...
I am reading and digesting the debate on the place of the forestry industry in our future. Apparently about 40 years ago we collectively decided that pine forests were going to improve the environment and apparently we were wrong. That was the past...
I was really disappointed The Gisborne Herald did not have any features, or at the very least, daily “signs” to promote and support NZ Sign Language Week, which ran from May 8 to 14 (last week). Perhaps I missed an article — I certainly found...
It seems the Government will look past the most explosive recommendation in the Ministerial Inquiry into Land Uses report — that it appoint a Commissioner to take over Gisborne District Council’s resource management functions — and focus...
World Croquet Day was celebrated in Gisborne with a golf croquet open afternoon organised by Barry Memorial Croquet Club members. It was aimed at those new to the game, and 12 players took part. Many of them had never lifted a mallet before...
Gisborne Trampoline Club members returned from the North Island champs in Auckland with seven titles, a silver medal and four bronze medals from its team of 13. Ava-Raey Haley took out both the trampoline and double mini North Island titles in the...
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: Whangar...
The second night of the badminton business house league had results ranging from dominant wins to close encounters. In the competitive grade, Cuzzys had some tight matches against RSL51s, a team made up of super veterans. The score ended three...
It was great to see 48 players taking part in Poverty Bay Bowling Club’s Eric Craill Triples Tournament this month. The tournament was held at Kahutia due to cyclone damage to Poverty Bay’s artificial green. Winners of the Eric Craill Shield...
Solid but not startling wins for the front-runners marked the weekend round of the Poverty Bay hockey competition, while there were some good efforts by the lower-ranked teams. Ngatapa women got the ball rolling on Thursday night on the Hain Farming...
by Sherrill Beale Round 2 of Gisborne senior netball gets under way at the YMCA tonight, with one game set to be close and the other a test for one of the new premier teams. Whangara Old Girls take on Horouta Koura at 6pm in the...
National champion, Olympian and now Canoe Sprint World Cup gold medallist. Gisborne’s Alicia Hoskin’s career reached another milestone with a gold medal-winning paddle alongside Dame Lisa Carrington at the International Canoe Federation Canoe...
In a time of rising costs golfers rose to the occasion to make last week’s Eastland Helicopter Rescue Trust Charity Golf Tournament a winning fundraising event. The annual tournament has traditionally raised around $10,000 to help EHRT support the...
House prices seem to have found a new normal after recent big drops, Gisborne realtors say. Latest data from the Real Estate Institute (REINZ) shows the region’s median house price is now $650,000, down 5.1 percent on the same time last year...